Last night I played with group of friends for a group of older folks. When asked for a patriotic song, one the guys pulled this song out of his head -- I'd never heard it before, but it was pretty good. The sitution wasn't right to get him to write it down.

"Stateside" -- about a soldier wanting to get back home. From some of the lyrics, which I can't remember in detail, it was probably written during the Korean War. It had lines about Japan and a geisha girl. Sort of country, or country blues. He also indicated it may have been popular during the Viet Nam era. Anyone out there have a clue about who, what, when ? I've searched Digitrad and Cowpie and done a brief spin on Google. No luck.