Wish You Were Here With Me
1967 · New Frontiers NF 4401 · USA
- Artist
- The Fawns
- Title
- Wish You Were Here With Me
- Release
- Wish You Were Here With Me / Nothing But Love Can Save Me
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- New Frontiers # NF 4401
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- E. Todd, L. Barbour
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The song "Wish You Were Here With Me" (Cap City Records # CC-105) by the Washington D.C. soul group The Fawns, featuring the three sisters Ann, Avis & Mildred Harrell. Also released on the DC label New Frontiers (# NF 4401). It told the story of a woman left on the home front longing for her man "in Vietnam, fighting for your country". Many men are trying to temp her, but she promised to "be true and only love you".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Your in Vietnam, fighting for your country / Missing your life, oh what a sacrifice / I promise to be true and only love you / Wish you were here with me / To hold me, and kiss me, and love the way you used to do / As you read my letter there is something you must know / Another man I was tempted to go / But a voice from within wouldn't let me give in... / Wish you were here with me... / I'm a lonely girl, boys won't let me be / They keep reminding me that you are still overseas / But wherever you are my heart will be with you
Notes
Orange New Frontiers NF 4401; "Wish You Were Here With Me" (L. Barbour - E. Todd), time 2:58, Euberto Music (BMI); "A G.E.L. Prod.", arranged by F. Perrin. Also issued on Cap City CC-105 (pink label, CC-105-A; Three Part Music (BMI), 2:58; "Nationally Distributed by Scepter/Wand Records"). New Frontiers is the original issue. [From the labels of both issues]
Themes
In collections
US Domestic Perspective Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs