Jack Sanders - The Viet Nam Blues

Vietnam War song: The song “The Viet Nam Blues“ (Dot Records # 16766), written by Kris Kristofferson, took a patriotic line. On 28 August 1965 Billboard reported that “Capt. Kris Kristofferson, 23, of Texas, a Rhodes scholar, got out of the army recently, met songwriter Marijohn Wilkin, who persuaded him to come to Nashville and try his hand as a songwriter. He agreed, signed with Buckhorn ’s first to be recorded is “The