V.C. Charlie
1975 · Astor A-7263 · Melbourne, Australia
- Artist
- Eureka Smith
- Title
- V.C. Charlie
- Release
- V.C. Charlie / He Walked That Lonesome Road
- Year
- 1975
- Label
- Astor # A-7263
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Melbourne, Australia
- Songwriter
- Eureka Smith
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Notes
Astor A-7263 (A), Australian recording, 3:25; (Eureka Smith, Aust. Comp.); Gentle Ghost Music; a Sticky Wicket production; engineer Mike Loxton; recorded at Mike Loxton Studios, Melbourne. [From the record label] Aussie, patriotic, country music Old vet, drunk, died. Once a youthful soldier in WW1 and WW2, won the Victoria Cross (VC not the Vietcong)! Digger Aussie - now it's time we showed some pride. Old soldiers never die, simply fade away. Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away / But listen and I'll tell you, of one who died today / He was just the drunken wino that hung around our town, he had no one that ever loved him and I know that got him down / But he was once a youthful soldier, and he served in two world wars, he'd won a V.C. cross, that no one ever saw / He's a drunkerd he's a soap he's a boozer at his throat / But life for him hasn't always been this way / From the…