Travelin’ Soldier by Dixie Chicks

Because I’m obsessive, I will mention yet again that Home, the album from which “Travelin Soldier” hails, should have won the Album of the Year Grammy in 2003, not Norah Jones’ vastly blander album, which shall remain nameless because I can’t remember the name, I’m too lazy to look it up, and, most importantly, because I’m a hater.

• “Travelin’ Soldier” was written by Bruce Robison; recorded once in 1996 and recomposed in 1999.  The Dixie Chicks version is the version I fell in love with, but the original(s) are also awesome.
• It’s easy to fall into this song.  The story telling is clear and compelling.

So the letters came from an army camp
In California then Vietnam
And he told her of his heart - It might be love
and all of the things he was so scared of

Travelin’ Soldier on Wikipedia | Travelin’ Soldier on Amazon mp3