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"John Prine"
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жанры: alt-country, love, folk, americana, singer-songwriter
альбомы: Diamonds in the Rough
Take The Star Out Of The Window
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John Prine
жанры: alt-country, love, folk, americana, singer-songwriter
альбомы: Diamonds in the Rough
рейтинг: ★★★★★ / 5.1 / 1054 просмотра
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Robert was a sailor For the best years of his life His captain was his mother And the ocean was his wife Only fresh out of the cradle Lifes one and only spring He was sworn to do his duty And got blood on his highschool ring Chorus: And its hello california Hello dad and mom Ship ahoy Your baby boy Is home from vietnam Dont you ask me any questions bout the medals on my chest Take the star out of the window And let my conscience take a rest Now he sailed across the ocean To the old far eastern war And it was foreign to his body It was foreign to his shore So he traded in the present For the better times hed seen And made an oriental waitress His own home comin queen (repeat chorus)
Это интересно:Prine is the son of William Prine and Verna Hamm. Prine himself started playing guitar at age 14, taught by his brother, David. He was a postman for five years and served in the Army before beginning his musical career in Chicago.In the late 1960s, while Prine was still delivering mail in Maywood, Illinois, he began to sing at open-mic evenings at the Fifth Peg on Armitage Avenue. Prine was initially a spectator, reluctant to perform, but eventually did so in response to a "You think you can do better?" comment made to him by another performer. Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert heard him there and wrote the first review Prine ever received, calling him a great songwriter.... продолжение
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