I Was a Witness to a War
1972 · Playboy P 50011 · USA
- Artist
- Bobby Scott
- Title
- I Was a Witness to a War
- Release
- I Was a Witness to a War
- Year
- 1972
- Label
- Playboy # P 50011
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- B. Scott, D. Meehan
- Genre
- Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]
I Was a Witness to a War (Scott, Bobby) Jazz / folk / traditional pop, anti-war Soldier - didn't want to go to war Soldier's wife - didn't want her husband to go, but had to do duty Victim of the war, the madness PS contained lyrics
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
An earlier UK single, Witness To A War, appeared on Reflection R.S. 2 in September 1970, written by Bobby Scott and Danny Meehan, with B-side I Wish I Could Walk Away. [From Discogs] Playboy Records P 50011 (50011A), stereo promotional copy, 4:53; ℗ 1972 Playboy Music, Inc.; Jenny Music, Inc., ASCAP; produced by Bob Cullen and Bobby Scott. Red picture sleeve with war-machine silhouettes and the lyrics on the back; design Rod Dyer. [From the record label and sleeve]