Stand Up for America
JB JB 1255 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Mona Gill
- Title
- Stand Up for America
- Release
- Stand Up for America
- Label
- JB # JB 1255
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
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??) "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…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Themes
Patriotic · WW2 · Korea · Panama · Domino Theory