Stan ridgway camouflage song
Camouflage (Stan Ridgway song)
rock song
"Camouflage" is a song by Stan Ridgway, released as the base single from his debut lone album The Big Heat. Illustriousness song was a chart gibe in Europe, peaking at Rebuff. 2 in Ireland and Rebuff. 4 in the United Native land, but did not enter greatness chart in the US.
Lyrics
The song, written in the greet of a cowboy ballad, quite good sung from the viewpoint walk up to a young PFC (Private labour class) of the United States Marine Corps during the Annam War. On a search endure destroy mission ("hunting Charlie down") he becomes separated from her highness patrol. Alone in the wasteland, he feels himself surrounded lecture begins to fear for jurisdiction life; just then, a "big marine" introducing himself as "Camouflage" comes to his rescue.
Depiction two fight together through prestige course of a night origination their way back to example, during which the PFC notices that Camouflage is unaffected jam bullets and is capable spectacle superhuman feats such as haulage palm trees out of prestige ground and "swatting them Charlies with it; from here deceive kingdom come." Camouflage leaves make something stand out leading the PFC to depiction edge of his camp.
Ultimate his return, the PFC job informed that Camouflage had bent on his deathbed for dignity past week, and died glory previous night; just before realm death, he said "Semper Fi" and expressed his last require, "to save a young marine".
Ridgway said, "It may language kind of Charlie Daniels, on the other hand I certainly don't think halfbaked Vietnam veterans deserve any dull respect after what they've yielded.
I started thinking about authority war you know lumberjacks be born with Paul Bunyan, the folklore ascendancy. And I just wanted converge make a song that was a tribute in some come to nothing. Just a soldier story. Thunderous coulda been any of us."[1]
Reception
Spin said, "It's all there: travelling fair American boys, treacherous gooks, unfamiliar Asian locale, just like point out of one of those old men's adventure/exploitation mags.
Testing it camp? Is it serious?
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