Soldier's Return
1967 · Allandale 3661 · USA
- Artist
- Steve Austin
- Title
- Soldier's Return
- Release
- Soldier's Return / You Set the Pattern
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Allandale # 3661
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- O. L. Stevens
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Soldier's Return (Austin, Steve). Country music. Narrated from soldier's perspective - plight of soldier. Lost a leg in Vietnam. He feared his wife would not want him.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I was coming home from Vietnam / I could see the old home now / Though I still had a mile to go / I'd make it there somehow / I wondered how my wife and son looked / How much she changed, how much he'd grown / And how they'd take the change in me / And what had happened while I was gone / Worrying all the times I'd written / Although I knew it was wrong / I never once admitted that my right leg was gone / I passed the little brook and the trees... / Were we stood together long ago / And she promised to be mine / And she whispered I will always love you, come what may / Would she remember that promise?... / Then I saw her coming down the stairs, a lovely sight... / But she faulted for a moment when she caught sight of me / I gripped my crutches tighter and I felt my body shake... / Then she ran to me...and said darling welcome home... / When she said, all that matters, is that you've come back to me / Only once in a lifetime do you find girl like mine / I was ashamed that my belief in her was shaken for a time / And each night a say a prayer to god and thank him for my life
Notes
Allandale 45-3661, matrix 718S-8137 / U4KM-8137, orange label; "Soldier's Return" (O. L. Stevens), 2:25, Stylecraft Music–B.M.I.; producers Marlin Gresham and Red Wayne; "A Style Wooten Production". "© 1967 Allandale Productions Inc., 3635 Allandale, Memphis, Tenn. 38111." [From the record sleeve and labels]