Time Enough to Die
1968 · Blake Records 2-214 · Memphis, USA
- Artist
- Lloyd Arnold
- Title
- Time Enough to Die
- Release
- Million Miles to Nowhere / Time Enough to Die
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Blake Records # 2-214
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Memphis, USA
- Genre
- Country · Honky Tonk
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]
Time Enough to Die Country, patriotic, combat conditions Partial track only. Memphis, Tennessee.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: "Far off Vietnam, here for you and me, this lad came to fight, justt to keep us free / Had no time for fun, no time to laugh or cry / The only thing he really had was time enough to die / The 25th division with prayers and battle songs pushed off into the country to fight the Vietcong / The new kid in our outfit spoke of dad and mom as we fought a war to keep man free in far off Vietnam / He hugged the ground befroe him, to scared to even cry / He said he never cared to fight but he would surely try / We couldn't see the enemy but we knew he was there, behind the trees and bushes, as bullets filled the air"
Notes
Pressed by Standard Record Pressing Company, Inc. (SRPC 126/127). [From Discogs]
Themes
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]