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Jamey Johnson Will Release New Song, “21 Guns,” on May 24
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May 15, 2024, 10:31 ET
The Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter Will Debut Song on PBS’ National Memorial Day Concert on Sunday, May 26, at 8 p.m. E.T.
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ –On May 24, Jamey Johnson will release his much-anticipated new song called “21 Guns,” which was inspired by attending the funerals of fellow Marines who paid the ultimate price in service to their country.
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Johnson will perform the national television debut of the powerful song during PBS’ National Memorial Day Concert.
Johnson will perform the national television debut of the powerful song “21 Guns” during PBS’ National Memorial Day Concert, which airs live nationwide on May 26 from 8 – 9:30 p.m. ET (check your local listings.) The concert is also streaming on www.pbs.org/national-memorial-day-concert and YouTube, and can be seen by our troops serving around the world on American Forces Network.
Johnson will perform the national television debut of the powerful song “21 Guns” during PBS’ National Memorial Day Concert, which airs live nationwide on May 26 from 8 – 9:30 p.m. ET (check your local listings.) The concert is also streaming on www.pbs.org/national-memorial-day-concert and YouTube, and can be seen by our troops serving around the world on American Forces Network.
Johnson will perform the national television debut of the powerful song during PBS’ National Memorial Day Concert, which airs live nationwide on May 26 from 8 – 9:30 p.m. ET (check your local listings.) The concert is also streaming on www.pbs.org/national-memorial-day-concert and YouTube, and can be seen by our troops serving around the world on American Forces Network.
“I wrote it because I have gone to too many funerals of Marines I served with that were just too young,” Johnson says. “When they die young, you always remember them that way, which is unfair. Guys that heroic that die that young deserve the right to grow old and they didn’t get to.
“But it is also being at those funerals and seeing their parents who seem much too young to have a child die in that way and wondering what must be going through their minds. This song is the answer to that question.”
The lyrics include:
Standing in this field of limestone
Watching flags wave in the air
You know we’d love to take you back home
But there ain’t no place like this there
A preacher stammers through a nice verse
Does his best to eulogize
But times like this there ain’t no right words
The rifles fire and your life flashes right before my eyes
But I don’t need no one to tell me you’re a hero
Hell, I’ve known that ever since you were young
There ain’t words to say how proud we all are of you, son
Nothing says job well done like 21 guns.
Johnson attended Jacksonville State University for several years before joining the U.S. Marines, serving from 1994 until 2002.
“Since I was a young child, I always knew I was going to be a Marine,” says Johnson, who reached the rank of corporal. “I knew when it was time to leave college and do my time in the Marine Corps. I signed up with a recruiter and went to Parris Island. It’s this same drive that I have today about doing this kind of song.”
He wrote ’21 Guns” with Nashville musician/producer/songwriter Jim “Moose” Brown about a year ago and has performed it several times during his concerts. It will be released on his own label, Big Gassed Records.
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