Dixie Chicks - Travelin' Soldier

[RoyGBiv]

I know these things annoy some people, so an initial apology. I wasn't paying attention to DU on Memorial Day, and I think this is a good MD song. I forced my relatives to listen to it. Just wanted to repeat it here...

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Two days past eighteen
He was waiting for the bus in his army green
Sat down in a booth in a cafe there
Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair
He’s a little shy so she gives him a smile
And he said would you mind sittin’ down for a while
And talking to me,
I’m feeling a little low
She said I’m off in an hour and I know where we can go

So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don’t care
I got no one to send a letter to
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you

Chorus: I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin’ for the love of a travelin’ soldier
Over love will never end
Waitin’ for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone when the letter said
A soldier’s coming home

So the letters came from an army camp
In california then vietnam
And he told her of his heart
It might be love and all of the things he was so scared of
He said when it’s getting kinda rough over here
I think of that day sittin’ down at the pier
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
Don’t worry but I won’t be able to write for awhile



One friday night at a football game
The lord’s prayer said and the anthem sang
A man said folks would you bow your heads
For a list of local vietnam dead
Crying all alone under the stands
Was a piccolo player in the marching band
And one name read and nobody really cared
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

[MaineDem]

1. I fill up every time I hear it

Reminds me of the very early 70s.

[RoyGBiv]

3. Glad someone else reacts to it that way....

I think it's very powerful.

I'm not a girl nor a veteran, but every time I hear it I think of a moment I witnessed last year as an Oklahoma unit was being shipped out. A group of soldiers were eating together at a local restaurant, and I watched them, in awe and respect, but also with a somewhat detached curiosity of what was going on around them. I saw the way they interacted with their waitress and the way that waitress treated them, which was respectful and seemingly normal but, well, different.

She had tears in her eyes when they left. I know that one of the people attached to that unit has since died in Iraq. Maybe he wasn't there with that particular group, but he could have been.

I dunno...maybe I'm being too melodramatic.

[dbt]

2. Long Live The CHICKS!

And FU, Toby Keith. Who was right and who was wrong about bu$h, boys and girls?

:evilgrin:
dbt

PS: The Nashville Establishment is as big a bunch of Enablers as the "news" networks.

[RoyGBiv]

4. Ya damn skippy...

Toby Keith can kiss my ass, but only if he brushes his teeth and asks permission first.

I wonder what Willy thinks now of his association with Keith for that horse drinking song.

[3rdParty]

8. Actually Willy was very grateful to Toby Keith for asking to sing 'horses'

and told him anytime he would like to do it again that he would be willing : this was at last weeks country music awards.

[GOPisEvil]

5. A word for the songwriters.

Bruce Robison and Farrah Braniff.

I've been a fan of Bruce's for a long time. He's got his own cd's out, but he's more famous for the songs he writes (Desperately, by George Strait more recently).

[RoyGBiv]

6. Thanks for the info...

I too often forget that the people who sing the songs aren't always the people who write them.

Here's to 'em ... :beer:

[skippysmom]

7. Beautiful song

It makes me sad to listen to it. I haven't been able to put it on my CD player in a while.