Bob Wills – Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima, is a 1945 song by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. The song was Bob Wills’ second number one on the Juke Box Folk charts, spending a single week at number one and a total of eleven weeks on the chart. The B-side of “Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima”, a song entitled, “You Don’t Care What Happens To Me” peaked at number five on the same chart.
Later in 1945, Sons of the Pioneers, peaked at number four on the Juke Box Folk Record chart with their version.
Bob Wills – Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima
B-side “You Don’t Care What Happens to Me”
Released May 1945
Recorded April 20, 1945
Studio CBS, Hollywood, California
Genre Western swing
Label Okeh
Songwriter(s) Bob Wills, Cliff Johnsen
COUNTRYPEDIA
Bob Wills – Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima Lyrics
When the Yanks raised
The Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima Isle
Thru’ the blood and tears they won thru’
Bless the heart of each Yankee
There on Iwo Jima Isle
Resting ‘neath a blanket of blue
High on the hill Suribachi flies
Old Glory and she always will
When the Yanks raised
The Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima Isle
There were tears in their hearts
Tho’ they smiled
When the Yanks raised
The Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima Isle
Ev’ry heart could sing once again
And the sight of Old Glory over Iwo Jima Isle
Swelled the hearts of our fighting men
Long will it wave o’er the hilltop
As a symbol of heroes who died
When the Yanks raised
The Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jim Isle
Each American heart filled with pride
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