Page 3 - String Instruments Cello

Page 3 - South Hamilton School Band using string orchestral instruments
The Cello and more

Of course there were string instruments like guitars in South Hamilton ensembles.

Traveling Soldier Boy

Two days past eighteen, he was waiting for the bus in his army green.
Sat down in a booth in a cafe there. Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair. He's a little shy, so she gives him a smile and he said, "Would you mind sittin' down for a while and talking to me? I'm feeling a little low!" Said "I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go." So they went down and they sat on the pier. He said, "I bet you got a boyfriend, but I don't care. I got no one to send a letter to! Would you mind if I sent one back here to you?"

I cried. Never gonna hold the hand of another guy! "Too young for him" they told her, "waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier!" Our love will never end, waitin' for the soldier to come back again. Never more to be alone, when the letter said a soldier's coming home.

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. He said, "When it's getting kinda rough over here, I think of that day sittin' down at the pier. And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile! Don't worry, but I won't be able to write for a while."

One Friday night at a football game,
the Lord's Prayer said, and the Anthem sang,
A man said, "Folks, would you bow your heads
for a list of local Vietnam dead."

Crying all alone under the stands
was a piccolo player in the marching band,
and one name read, but nobody really cared,
but a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair!

I cried! Never gonna hold the hand of another guy! "Too young for him," they told her, "waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier!" Our love will never end, waitin' for the soldier to come back again... Never more to be alone, when the letter said a soldier's coming home....

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