What was the most requested song by soldiers in Vietnam in 1965?
“We Gotta Get Outta This Place” – The Animals (1965) – while not explicitly about Vietnam, the song’s themes became a popular anthem with the troops.
This world of uncertainty, sorrow, and death causes one to look for a better day when sanity will reign. Many of the old hymns speak of that reality.
I’m gonna move from this world of fear,
Kinda gettin’ tired of living here
I want to go home where the winds of sorrow never blow.
Far from the shadow of the tomb, Far from the sadness and the gloom
I wanna go home when death demands my shattered soul.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
What a day that will be when the fighting will be over and that prepared-place will be experienced.
Give it some thought.
Gary