A Voice in the Wind
Coins APC-VA5 · USA
- Artist
- Pvt. Abair
- Title
- A Voice in the Wind
- Release
- Pvt. Abair, USMC / A Voice in the Wind
- Label
- Coins # APC-VA5
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- H. J. Carter
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Pvt. Abair, USMC (Abair, Pvt.) - novelty piece about a private being ordered around in the army. "A Voice in the Wind" - patriotic / pro-government, fighting to help the Vietnamese be free.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation
Pvt. Abair, USMC (Abair, Pvt.) - novelty piece about a private being ordered around in the army. "Listen to the sound of the men in the marching marines March a hundred thousand million miles each day it seems Go to bed and go to sleep and marching through my dreams Listen to the sound of the men in the marching marines Up at 5'oclock everyday before the rising sun... Slop the deck, scrub the head, and then my work has just begun... Here comes the man better known at the sergeant Can't seem to please him makes no difference how hard I try Yelling every breath in my ear now I don't know why There ain't a meaner man in the whole world than the sergeant One, two, three, left one, two, three four, I ain't gonna tell you" "A Voice in the Wind" - patriotic / pro-government, fighting to help the Vietnamese be free. "God please don't let them die in vain I hear in the voice in the wind and it's calling me home Far from the land across the sea But I can't return until the battle is one Until the people of this land is free Men fight and die for a better place to live... What more than their young lives to give Trembling and bleeding and crying in pain God please don't let them die in vain As in past men have done I must kill For the right of mankind to live in peace And I must fight to the death... For my courage and my strength will never cease.... Why"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Coins APC-VA5, mono, black label with gold print; produced by Abajon Productions, Inc., direct distribution by The Rabbit, P.O. Box 381, Tallahassee, Florida; "Pvt. Abair, USMC" (H. J. Carter), 2:30 (PRP 27431), and "A Voice in the Wind" (H. J. Carter), 2:01 (PRP 27432), both Alpine Music, Inc., ASCAP. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]