Welcome Me Home

Annotation

The song "Welcome Me Home" (Sandbag Records # S102) from 1967 looks at the returning soldier. Little is known of the artist Jim Jackson - signed to the New York based label Sandbag - who screams his way through this soulful track. It was composed by Jackson, produced by Mike Symansky (who founded the label), and arranged by Richard Bobeuf. The narrator, having returned home, wants to re-start his life: "I'll be your loving husband and you can be my lovely wife". But he needs help to "forget all about Vietnam" because of its horrors, which he recalls: "lonely days" in a "rotten, god forsaken place".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: Welcome me home / Try to make me feel like a king on the throne / Try make me forget all about Vietnam / Cause all I want to do right now is be in your ever loving arms... / Together we can start a brand new life / I'll be your loving husband and you can be my lovely wife... / Let me tell you how it really was when I was away / Sometimes a cried those lonely days / So I could get out of this rotten, god forsaken place / And I could ask you for your loving hand... / Just wipe away the tears from our eyes / And thank the lord...no more war

Notes

Sandbag Records S102 (MS 3057), blue label with silver print; "Welcome Me Home" (Jim Jackson), 3:14, Ilene Music (BMI), Mr. Mike (ASCAP); produced by Mike Szymansky, arranged by Richard Babeuf. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes

Soldier's Perspective · Vet

In collections

Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs · US Combat Perspective Songs [War Years]