Pencil Marks on the Wall
1971 · Mega 615-0030 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Henson Cargill
- Title
- Pencil Marks on the Wall
- Release
- Pencil Marks on the Wall / Momma's Waiting
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Mega # 615-0030
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- Richard Ahlert, Eddy Snyder
- Genre
- Country · Nashville Sound
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Pencil Marks on the Wall (Cargill, Henson) Country, home front perspective, leans anti-war Jimmy went to school - marked his height on the wall Here's the last one - should he marry he wondered? Three days later he was drafted to war - K.I.A. How many more will die?
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Mega 615-0030 (M1J-M1203), Mega Records & Tapes, Inc. USA; "Pencil Marks on the Wall" (Richard Ahlert-Eddy Snyder), 2:42, Free Verse, Inc. (ASCAP); produced by Jim Malloy for Cabin Hill Productions. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 5 February 5, 1941, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Died 24 March 2007, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA