Dennis Filkin, Gail Keener and The Madlads
He'll Never Know
1967 · Tren / Dell 102 · Norfolk, Virginia
- Artist
- Dennis Filkin, Gail Keener and The Madlads
- Title
- He'll Never Know
- Release
- He'll Never Know / When Hope Is Gone
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Tren / Dell # 102
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Norfolk, Virginia, USA
- Genre
- Garage Rock · Garage Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Garage folk / rock, from Norfolk, Virginia, USA. The song "He’ll Never Know" (Tren / Dell Records # 102) "San Francisco was our port of embarkation / We hear that Vietnam would be our destination / Darling, that’s when I read your letter saying our love was dead / And my reason for living was gone / I cried all the way from San Francisco Bay to the bloody, steaming jungles of Vietnam / I lay here trembling as the bullets fly / No reason left for living, still, I don’t want to die / I lay here trembling as the bullets fly / Give my life for my country, but you made me cry / Then my reason for living was gone / Mail call! / It’s getting so dark I can hardly see / I think I’ll just strike a small light and see what she wrote to me / (Spoken epilogue:) Even though he’ll never know, this is what she wrote: / Darling, I didn’t mean the things I wrote to you / I love you so much, you know I’d never hurt you / I was just upset because you didn’t write to me / I didn’t know you were too busy preparing to go overseas / And so, as the sun sets in your part of the world tonight / Remember, I love you / P.S: Darling, please write"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Garage Rock Songs
- Garage folk / rock, from Norfolk, Virginia, USA. - The song "He’ll Never Know" (Tren / Dell Records # 102) "San Francisco was our port of embarkation / We hear that Vietnam would be our destination / Darling, that’s when I read your letter saying our love was dead / And my reason for living was gone / I cried all the way from San Francisco Bay to the bloody, steaming jungles of Vietnam / I lay here trembling as the bullets fly / No reason left for living, still, I don’t want to die / I lay here trembling as the bullets fly / Give my life for my country, but you made me cry / Then my reason for living was gone / Mail call! / It’s getting so dark I can hardly see / I think I’ll just strike a small light and see what she wrote to me / (Spoken epilogue:) Even though he’ll never know, this is what she wrote: / Darling, I didn’t mean the things I wrote to you / I love you so much, you know I’d never hurt you / I was just upset because you didn’t write to me / I didn’t know you were too busy preparing to go overseas / And so, as the sun sets in your part of the world tonight / Remember, I love you / P.S: Darling, please write"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Garage folk-rock single by Dennis Filkin, Gail Keener and The Madlads, from Norfolk, Virginia.
Themes
Soldier's Perspective · Dear John Letter · Mail Call · Combat · Jungle