Sailor's Plea
1966 · Starday SLP-389 · USA
- Artist
- Wilf Carter
- Title
- Sailor's Plea
- Release
- Montana Slim
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Starday # SLP-389
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Mother's Son in Viet Nam, A (Wilf Carter) (Starday Records # SLP-389) Country music. Narrated from soldier's perspective, who missed his wife and family. But strongly backed the objectives of the war. Patriotic, pro-government. "You asked me why we're fighting in this far distant land / If you were in this jungle then your son would understand / We're fighting for democracy, to keep all people free / Keep the stars and strips flying high in the good old USA / I miss my wife and family, and my dear old mother too / There's thousands here just like me, but we have a job to do / Don't speak of us unkindly, as we've heard some folks have done / I'm just a mother's son fighting here in Vietnam / You asked me why we're fighting to defend some foreign land / If you cherish your freedom then you should all understand / We're fighting to protect you and the old good USA / And now you've heard my story, and to you I'll only say / I miss my wife and family and my dear old mother too / There's thousands here just like me, but we have a job to do / Don't speak of us unkindly, as we've heard some folks have done / I'm just a mother's son fighting here in Vietnam"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation
Mother's Son in Viet Nam, A (Wilf Carter) (Starday Records # SLP-389) Country music. Narrated from soldier's perspective, who missed his wife and family. But strongly backed the objectives of the war. Patriotic, pro-government. "You asked me why we're fighting in this far distant land If you were in this jungle then your son would understand We're fighting for democracy, to keep all people free Keep the stars and strips flying high in the good old USA I miss my wife and family, and my dear old mother too There's thousands here just like me, but we have a job to do Don't speak of us unkindly, as we've heard some folks have done I'm just a mother's son fighting here in Vietnam You asked me why we're fighting to defend some foreign land If you cherish your freedom then you should all understand We're fighting to protect you and the old good USA And now you've heard my story, and to you I'll only say I miss my wife and family and my dear old mother too There's thousands here just like me, but we have a job to do Don't speak of us unkindly, as we've heard some folks have done I'm just a mother's son fighting here in Vietnam
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Canadian country singer ('Montana Slim'), born 18 December 1904 in Nova Scotia, Canada; died 5 December 1996 in Scottsdale, Arizona. [Source: Wikipedia]