Awkward religious content alert:
One thing I've learned from Mark Steyn is to give credit to the song writers. So I looked this up and found that it was written by Fred Rose. And I also found out that he wrote two other favorites of mine:
'Deed I Do
Deep Water
(That's from this.)
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February 25, 2012
Music break: Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
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Thanks for the memories...
ReplyDeleteWhen stationed in Vietnam we had a C&W band called the "Playboys" appropriately named in honor of Bob Wills.
We cut a few records but they never made the big time although "The Medic" was the most popular requested song in the Saigon area at that time. It went like this:
A young G.I. soldier on leave in Saigon
Was stopped by two MP’s, they said pardon young man
There’s blood on you cap
There’s blood on your sleeve,
And we may have to cancel your seven-day leave.
The young G.I. said, Sir, now don’t take me wrong
For I’ve just returned from a place call Khe-sahn
Where the hardships are many and the comforts are few
And brave men are dying for me and for you.
Don’t have much money ‘cause I don’t draw much pay
Just came into town to spend a few days.
Won’t bother your women or drink up your wine
Just goin’ to write a few letters for a friend of mine
Ya see, last week my best buddy got shot in the chest
And, as I held him he told me with his last dying breath
Please write to my mother
Please write to my girl
And tell them I loved them as I left this world.
He left those two MP’s with tears in their eyes
Stayed there three days and went back to his guys.
For he was a medic and his future was made
The dying and wounded would need his first aid.
Correction: Our band was called "The Southern Playboys"
ReplyDeleteand this verse should be changed to:
Don’t have much money ‘cause I don’t draw much pay
Just came into town to spend a few days.
Won’t bother your women or drink up your wine
Just goin’ to write a few letters for some friend of mine
('some' replaces 'a'