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" Sam Stone " is a song written by John Prine about a drug-addicted veteran with a Purple Heart and his death by overdose. It appeared on Prine's eponymous 1971 debut album.
“Sam Stone” is the forth track on Prine’s self-titled debut album, released in 1971. The song was originally titled “Great Society Conflict Veteran’s Blues.” It’s told in the third
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Stay. John Prine had been in the Army during the Vietnam War, although he was stationed in Germany and avoided the conflict. He saw veterans returning home and struggling, so he wrote a song that ...
Songfacts®: "Sam Stone" is about a drug-addicted war veteran, presumably from the Vietnam War although it's not explicitly mentioned, who dies of an overdose. Prine was drafted into the Army during the conflict in the late '60s and was inspired by his fellow soldiers to write the song. "There's no one person who was the basis for Sam Stone ...
