the Shirelles

Thursday Inspiration — Yesterday, Today, Tonight, and Tomorrow

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For this week’s Thursday Inspiration prompt, Jim Adams has instructed us to respond to this challenge by either using the prompt word, today, or anything else that we think fits.

Im going with the story of a man and a woman who meet and something magical happens between them. Or at least it seems that way.

Yesterday we talked on the phone for hours and it was like we’ve known each other for years.

Today we met at the cafe for coffee and it was like magic.

Tonight I’ll be cooking dinner for us at my place for our first date and you’ll be mine completely.

But tomorrow, when the sun comes up in the morning, will you still love me?

Or will my heart be broken?

Oops, I screwed up. Instead of duplicating my May 11th Thursday Inspiration post in order to create this new post, I overwrote it. And that’s why some of the comments on this post are comments meant for my May 11th Thursday Inspiration — Sea of Love post, which if you want to read, click here.

Song Lyric Sunday — Soldier Boy

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For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday theme, Jim Adams has leveraged the suggestion from Di, over at Pensitivity101, to go with Army, Soldier, or War. I had no doubt when I saw the words for this week, my song choice would be “Soldier Boy” from the Shirelles.

“Soldier Boy,” written by Luther Dixon and Florence Greenberg, was made famous by the girl group, the Shirelles, in 1962. The Shirelles were one of the biggest ’60s girl groups, and when the song was released as a single, it met with great success, rising to number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Record executive Florence Greenberg, founder of Scepter Records and the Shirelles manager, wrote the song, which was originally titled “I’ll Be True To You.” In this song, the Shirelles sing from the perspective of a girl who is left behind when her boyfriend goes off to war. The main frame of the song’s lyrics make no mention of a soldier. It was only in the studio that the Shirelles gave the song a much better title to reflect its narrative, the profession of someone’s love for her soldier boy in which she promises to remain true to him while he’s away.

Here are the lyrics to “Soldier Boy.”

Soldier boy
Oh, my little soldier boy
I'll be true to you

You were my first love
And you'll be my last love
I will never make you blue
I'll be true to you
In this whole world
You can love but one girl
Let me be that one girl
For I'll be true to you

Wherever you go
My heart will follow
I love you so
I'll be true to you
Take my love with you
To any port or foreign shore
Darling, you must feel for sure
I'll be true to you

Soldier boy
Oh, my little soldier boy
I'll be true to you