Credited on the record as Barbara Ann.
Battlefield Prayer
1968 · Rimrock RS 277 · Concord, Arkansas
- Artist
- Barbara Ann Mefford
- Credited on the record as
- Barbara Ann
- Title
- Battlefield Prayer
- Release
- How Much Farther Can We Go / Battlefield Prayer
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Rimrock # RS 277
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Concord, Arkansas, USA
- Songwriter
- B. Ann
- Genre
- Country · Country Gospel
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — US Combat Perspective Songs [War Years]
Country gospel from Rimrock, Concord, Arkansas. Barbara Ann Mefford sets to music a soldier's prayer, sold on the picture sleeve as a "Heart Touching Story found on a Dead soldier - After A Battle": "This soldier was converted on the battlefield. Listen while he talks to God!" B-side of "How Much Farther Can We Go", whose sleeve names "A war in Viet Nam!"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Published by Oleta; pressed by Rimrock Mfg. Co. Issued with picture sleeve. [From Discogs] Rimrock Records RS 277 B, 2:20; "Battlefield Prayer" (B. Ann); Oleta, BMI; (SP 1010); Rimrock Records .... Concord, Arkansas. [From the record label] Picture sleeve, one side: "Barbara Ann sings How Much Farther Can We Go! Rearrangement of a Duane Allen Composition. Fitting for this Day in which we live. Men claiming God is Dead! L S D! & Hippies! & A war in Viet Nam! Satan's Hordes Working Overtime". Other side: "Battlefield Prayer. Heart Touching Story found on a Dead soldier - After A Battle. This soldier was converted on the battlefield. Listen while he talks to God! Set to music & sung by Barbara Ann Mefford". [From the picture sleeve]