Welcome Home POW
1973 · Glenn [Palmdale] 4036 · USA
- Artist
- Eldon Fault
- Title
- Welcome Home POW
- Release
- Welcome Home POW / Living in the Lap of Luxury
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Glenn [Palmdale] # 4036
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- George Woodward
- Genre
- Country · Bakersfield Sound
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The song "Welcome Home POW" (Glenn Records # 4036) performed by Eldon Fault, a Nashville based singer-songwriter, dealt with the P.O.W. issue. Members of Nashville West, a Californian country rock band (1967-68), backed Fault on this record. The personnel featured Gib Guilbeau (rhythm guitar, harmony vocals, producer), Gene Parsons (drums, harmony vocals) (member of the The Flying Burrito Bros and The Byrds), Wayne Moore (bass, harmony vocals), Clarence White (lead guitar, harmony vocals), and Darrell Cotton.123 Glen MacArthur also produced (he founded the label, named after him). Recorded in Palmdale, California. Composed by George Woodward. Largely narrated from the perspective of a US soldier, "a prisoner so long in Vietnam", on his way home. Sitting on the train, he hoped that his former sweetheart Mary-Anne would be waiting for him at the station.Sources1burritobrother.com: Eldon Fault — Welcome Home POW / Living in the Lap of Luxury↩2starclustermusic.com (link no longer available)↩3members.chello.at (archived copy)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — P.O.W. / M.I.A. Songs
The song "Welcome Home POW" (Glenn Records # 4036) performed by Eldon Fault, a Nashville based singer-songwriter, dealt with the P.O.W. issue. Members of Nashville West, a Californian country rock band (1967-68), backed Fault on this record. The personnel featured Gib Guilbeau (rhythm guitar, harmony vocals, producer), Gene Parsons (drums, harmony vocals) (member of the The Flying Burrito Bros and The Byrds), Wayne Moore (bass, harmony vocals), Clarence White (lead guitar, harmony vocals), and Darrell Cotton.123 Glen MacArthur also produced (he founded the label, named after him). Recorded in Palmdale, California. Composed by George Woodward. Largely narrated from the perspective of a US soldier, "a prisoner so long in Vietnam", on his way home. Sitting on the train, he hoped that his former sweetheart Mary-Anne would be waiting for him at the station. Sources1burritobrother.com: Eldon Fault — Welcome Home POW / Living in the Lap of Luxury↩2starclustermusic.com (link no longer available)↩3members.chello.at (archived copy)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: You're going home, POW, 10 long years in a prisoner cell / 10 long years of living hell / Today I'm free and going home / A happy fear that chills my bone / A prisoner so long in Vietnam / I sometimes wonder who I am / But with god's help, and Mary-Anne / One day I'll be home again / Going home, now this old train runs too slow / I want to go, to go, with every mile that passes by / I'm so happy I could cry / The whistle is blowing, the station I see / I wonder if she is there waiting for me... / There she stands by the station door, at last, I'm home
Notes
Glenn 4036-1 (GS-1-4036), stereo, purple label, Glenn Records, Box 82, Palmdale, California; "Welcome Home POW" (George Woodward), 2:25, MacArthur Music, BMI; produced by Gib Guilbeau and Glen MacArthur (S. Nashville Sound). [From the record sleeve and labels]