Stand Up for America

Annotation

The song Stand Up for America (Gill, Mona) (J B Records # JB 1255) Country. Nashville, Tennessee. Patriotic, strongly critical of government 'weakness'. Hawkish. World War Two, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Panama (is this late 70s then??) And stand up for America while we still can"

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: My grandpa went to Panama in the year of '92 / To dig that big canal so our ships could go through / My grandpa caught malaria so sick and all alone / He died there in that jungle, 2000 miles from home / My daddy left this country in the year of '42 / Wounded in Okinawa and Iwo Jima too / His buddies didn't make it, their blood still in that sand / The ground we fought and died for was put back in their hands / My brother left this country in the year of '52 / To die for Korea and the world's freedom too / My brother lived his last two years fighting in that hell / My brother gave his life at the 38th parallel / My darling left this country in 1972 / To fight that no win war, what else could he did? / We didn't save one good of land and the communist moved in / My darling lost his life in a war we could not win / Our leaders seem to give away everything our men died for / Okinawa, Vietnam, and now it's Panama / The time has come American for us take a stand / And stand up for our country, America our land... / And stand up for America while we still can

Notes

JB Records International JB 1255, white label; "Stand Up for America" (Mona Gill) on both sides, Side One A in stereo and Side Two B in mono, Brownleaf, BMI, time 2:43; produced by P. R. Gill; J. B. Records International, P.O. Box 2434, Nashville, Tenn. 37214. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes

Patriotic · WW2 · Korea · Panama · Domino Theory

In collections

US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]