I'm the Girl
1964 · Split 527 · USA
- Artist
- Joyce & Linda New
- Title
- I'm the Girl
- Release
- I'm the Girl / Lines of Heartbreak
- Year
- 1964
- Label
- Split # 527
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Joyce New
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Draft Songs
"I'm the Girl" Country music. Domestic perspective - sweetheart left behind.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Uncle Sam came and took my Joe away / And all the boys keeps knocking on my door each day / But before Joe left for overseas, I became his wife, that's what I want to be / Yes I'm the girl that's left behind in the USA
Notes
Split Records 527, pressed by Sound of Nashville (SoN 11512); B-side "Lines of Heartbreak" by Joyce New. Label: "I'm the Girl" (Joyce New), Hard Times Pub., BMI, 2:10; Split Records, 2621 Lakeland Drive, Nashville, Tenn. [From the record label]