When You Gonna Bring Our Soldiers Home
1970 · RCA Victor 74-9871 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Skeeter Davis
- Title
- When You Gonna Bring Our Soldiers Home
- Release
- We Need a Lot More of Jesus / When You Gonna Bring Our Soldiers Home
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- RCA Victor # 74-9871
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- Skeeter Davis
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
When You Gonna Bring Our Soldiers Home (Davis, Skeeter) Country. Anti-war. Nixon (1) When you gonna bring our soldiers home When you gonna bring our soldiers home You promised that you would now don't you think you should When you gonna bring our soldiers home. Every mother has to worry about the son she love And every sweetheart has to worry too Well a few don't call this war then what we're fighting for I think it's time you brought them on don't you Now you don't think I should protest a question what you do But I know you could end this war today And I think I've got a right cause I just got card tonight The man I love was killed there yesterday. When you gonna bring our soldiers home When you gonna bring our soldiers home You promised that you would now don't you think you should When you gonna bring our soldiers home.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
When You Gonna Bring Our Soldiers Home (Davis, Skeeter) Country. Anti-war. Nixon When you gonna bring our soldiers home When you gonna bring our soldiers home You promised that you would now don't you think you should When you gonna bring our soldiers home. Every mother has to worry about the son she love And every sweetheart has to worry too Well a few don't call this war then what we're fighting for I think it's time you brought them on don't you Now you don't think I should protest a question what you do But I know you could end this war today And I think I've got a right cause I just got card tonight The man I love was killed there yesterday. When you gonna bring our soldiers home When you gonna bring our soldiers home You promised that you would now don't you think you should When you gonna bring our soldiers home.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born 30 December 1931, Dry Ridge, Kentucky, USA. Died 19 September 12004, Nashville, Tennessee, USA