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 Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Welfare Hero (Holbrook, Tom) Country. Disabled / mistreatment of veteran. Homecoming 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
Notes
Countryside CS-45103-A, mono, white label marked "For Radio Station Use Only", ℗ 1973 by Countryside Records; "Welfare Hero" (Ashdown & Stewart), 3:40 (intro :09, close cold), Tree Music Publ., BMI; produced by Michael Nesmith for The Countryside; distributed by Elektra Records, a Division of Warner Communications Inc., 15 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10023. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
Disabled Vet · Medals · Lost Love · Drugs