Say Welcome Home
1967 · Stepping Stone 101 · Smyrna, Georgia
- Artist
- Soul-Jers
- Title
- Say Welcome Home
- Release
- Say Welcome Home / Better As We Go Along
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Stepping Stone # 101
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Smyrna, Georgia, USA
- Songwriter
- R. Brannon, C. Brannon
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Released on a label based in Smyrna, Georgia, the song "Say Welcome Home" (Stepping Stone # 101) - a rare record, that according to Greg Burgess, in his article "The Soul of Vietnam", Record Collector, No. 275, July 2002, 40-48, was about the Vietnam conflict. The label gives the writing credit to R. Brannon and C. Brannon, and production to Lamar Keeter.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: It's such a beautiful place for me to have been / For all these many many years / We fought, and hated, and loved so hard / But never without fear / What we have here is failure to understand / We...so many times, we don't seem to remember / From the night to the day, and when we're alone / I can hardly wait to hear 'welcome home' / Are you this endless, are we mistaken...
Notes
Stepping Stone Record No. 101 (X4KM-7615, 662T-7614), "Division of Trend Records", label showing a stepping-stone path over a green hill under a starry sky; "Say Welcome Home" (R. Brannon - C. Brannon), Mimic Music BMI, 2:09; produced by Lamar Keeter. [From the record sleeve and labels]