Travelin' Soldier

Album: released as a single (2025)
Charted: 12
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  • Two days past eighteen
    He was waiting on a bus in his army greens
    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 give him a smile
    He said would you mind sittin' down for a while
    And talking to me, I'm feeling pretty low
    She said, "I'm off in an hour and I know a place we can go"
    So they went down and sat on the pier
    He said, "I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
    'Cause I got no one to send back a letter to
    Would you mind if I sent one back here to you?"

    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
    Our love will never end
    Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
    Never more to be alone when the letter says
    "The soldier's coming home"

    So the letters came from an army camp
    In California then Vietnam
    And he told her of his heart
    How it might be love, all of the things he was so scared of
    He said, "When it's getting kinda rough over here
    I sit and think about that day on the pier
    And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
    Don't worry but I won't be able to write for a while"

    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
    Our love will never end
    Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
    Never more to be alone when the letter says
    "The soldier's coming home"

    One Friday night at a football game
    The Lord's Prayer said and the anthem sang
    And a man said, "Folks, would you bow your heads
    For a list of the local Vietnam dead"
    Crying all alone underneath the stands
    Was a piccolo player in the marching band
    And one name read and nobody really cared
    'Cept that pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

    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
    Our love will never end
    Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
    Never more to be alone when the letter says
    "The soldier's coming home"

    When the letter says
    "The soldier's coming home" Writer/s: Bruce Robison
    Publisher: Bluewater Music Corp.
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