Welfare Hero
1973 · Countryside CS-45103 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Tom Holbrook
- Title
- Welfare Hero
- Release
- Welfare Hero
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Countryside # CS-45103
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Ashdown, Stewart
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Welfare Hero (Holbrook, Tom) Country. Disabled / mistreatment of veteran. Post-war theme, soldier's perspective, religion, drugs Back to OK city, people will greet me and admire my medals But they'll see I'm disabled - a welfare hero With the bomb had left me dead. I can't dance Some vets become junkies - nothing to live for. God please hear my prayers.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "Welfare Hero" b/w "I Wish I Was Home" (Countryside CS-45103, February 1973, promo; a two-sided promo variant exists), with Tree Music, Central Songs and Elektra Sound Recorders credits - a topical country record. No biography was located. [Source: Discogs; 45cat]
Themes
Disabled Vet · Medals · Lost Love · Drugs