Letter to Uncle Sam
Sherwood G-1306 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Lance Hill
- Title
- Letter to Uncle Sam
- Release
- Old Glory Speaks / Letter to Uncle Sam
- Label
- Sherwood # G-1306
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- Laurel Stallard, Ronnie Layne
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Song Poems
- Song poem, country, patriotic - Label: Sherwood Records # G-1306 - Songwriter: Laurel Stallard, Ronnie Layne (both sides) - "Letter to Uncle Sam" - Can't pay $50 in tax. Draft board sent me to the army - My girlfriend married the banker's son, the banker was on the draft board - Had a state job - but politics changed, now unemployed - Will things get better? - Draft, mistreatment of vet, economic, jobs, tax, lost love
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Draft Songs
Old Glory Speaks (Hill, Lance) Letter to Uncle Sam (Hill, Lance) Song poem, country, fanfare, patriotic. Old Glory Speaks: Flag narration - reference to conflicts: Revolutionary, Civil, WW1, WW2, Korea. Currently engaged in a new crisis (Vietnam) Letter to Uncle Sam: can't pay $50 in tax. Draft board sent me to the army My girlfriend married the banker's son. The banker was on the draftboard Had a state job - but politics changed, now unemployed Will things get better? Draft, mistreatment of vet.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Sherwood Records No. G-1306 (G-1306A / G-1306B), white label with red script logo, P.O. Box 275, Nashville 2, Tennessee; "Old Glory Speaks", 2:42, and "Letter to Uncle Sam", both (Laurel Stallard & Ronnie Layne). [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
Draft · Draft Inequality · Tax · Economic · Mistreatment of Vet · Lost Love · Song Poem
In collections
Draft Songs · Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]