Honest and straight from the heart.... I wrote this back around 1978/1979 back when I was finishing up high school and sadly had to part ways with my girlfriend. I decided to join the military (US Coast Guard) and she went of to college to become an X-ray technician in a top notch hospital somewhere.
The song was me pouring my heart out, for her to join me, but as devastating as it sounds, she wanted no part of the military and/or military lifestyle, military wife, type of thing... And that was the end of it.
Like I said, I wrote this as a young teenager, and after the devastating blow of the breakup, I put the song aside and never bothered with it for about 40 years. I rediscovered it, and started messing around with it all over again. I decided to adapt it to piano versus guitar.
If anyone wants to help me collaborate on this heartfelt ballad, let me know. I have the tracks all re-recorded on my Tascam DP-03SD (Yamaha keyboard & drum machine, acoustic guitar, bass, vocals). Maybe help me re-do it with another instrument of some sort. Maybe add another guitar or a harmony vocal. What do you think?
The song was me pouring my heart out, for her to join me, but as devastating as it sounds, she wanted no part of the military and/or military lifestyle, military wife, type of thing... And that was the end of it.
Like I said, I wrote this as a young teenager, and after the devastating blow of the breakup, I put the song aside and never bothered with it for about 40 years. I rediscovered it, and started messing around with it all over again. I decided to adapt it to piano versus guitar.
If anyone wants to help me collaborate on this heartfelt ballad, let me know. I have the tracks all re-recorded on my Tascam DP-03SD (Yamaha keyboard & drum machine, acoustic guitar, bass, vocals). Maybe help me re-do it with another instrument of some sort. Maybe add another guitar or a harmony vocal. What do you think?