House of Bamboo
1967 · Festival FK-1973 · Toowoomba, Australia
- Artist
- Peter Wright
- Title
- House of Bamboo
- Release
- House of Bamboo / Clown Tears
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Festival # FK-1973
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Toowoomba, Australia
- Songwriter
- Peter Wright
- Genre
- Pop · Psychedelic Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Australian & New Zealand Songs
Australian pop / psychedelic rock artist from Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, he wrote and recorded the song "House of Bamboo" (Festival Records # FK-1973), in October 1967. It received moderate success in Sydney, making "the 2UE chart and Ward ‘Pally’ Austin’s Top 30 on 2UW, where it reached # 3".1 While not mentioning the conflict in Vietnam, it was narrated from a soldier's perspective in the "jungle", with "war...all around me", missing his sweetheart: "my heart, longing for you". Sources1History of Aussie Music: Peter Wright↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Gone to the steamy jungle, in my heart, longing for you / War is all around me, reaching high touching the sky / House of bamboo / If my love could fly / Spread my wings, be truly free, and fly / The morning dew do ya / Evening due do ya...
Notes
Does not name the war; a soldier in the jungle with "war all around me". Reached no. 3 on 2UW Sydney, October 1967.
About the artist
Peter Wright - pop and psychedelic rock singer-songwriter from Toowoomba, Queensland.