Brothers Under the Bridge
1998 · Columbia CXK 69475 · Freehold, New Jersey
- Artist
- Bruce Springsteen
- Title
- Brothers Under the Bridge
- Release
- Tracks
- Year
- 1998
- Label
- Columbia # CXK 69475
- Format
- CD · Archival
- Language
- English
- Country
- Freehold, New Jersey, USA
- Songwriter
- Bruce Springsteen
- Genre
- Rock · Americana
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Bruce Springsteen Songs
The song "Brothers Under the Bridge", as above, was also featured on Tracks (Columbia Records # CXK 69475) - a compilation of archival, mainly never released songs, recorded during album sessions. Note: this is different from the song "Brothers Under the Bridges '83", which also featured on this compilation. This again looked at the plight of the Vietnam veteran: "Saigon, it was all gone... I come home in '72". The narrator recalled his friend's death, and its impact on his family: "come Veterans Day, I held your mother's hand when they passed with the red, white and blue".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Saigon, it was all gone The same Coke machines as the streets I grew on Down a mesquite canyon we come walking along the ridge Me and the brothers under the bridge Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town Up here there's too much brush and canyon for the CHP choppers to touch down Ain't looking for nothing, just wanna live Me and the brothers under the bridge
Notes
Columbia CXK 69475 (4-CD box "Tracks", 1998), disc 4 track 14, 5:03; recorded during the Ghost of Tom Joad sessions. Not the same song as "Brothers Under the Bridges '83" (disc 3). [From Discogs]
About the artist
Born Freehold, New Jersey, USA (23 September 1949). Currently Rumson, New Jersey.
Themes
From the release Tracks