Singing in Viet Nam Talking Blues

"Singing in Viet Nam Talking Blues"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album Man in Black
B-side"You've Got a New Light Shining"
Released1971 (1971)
GenreCountry, talking blues, protest song
LabelColumbia 4-45393
Songwriter(s)Johnny Cash
Producer(s)Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"Man in Black"
(1971)
"Singing in Viet Nam Talking Blues"
(1971)
"Papa Was a Good Man"
(1971)
Audio
"Singing in Viet Nam Talking Blues" on YouTube

"Singing in Viet Nam Talking Blues" (or "Singin' in Viet Nam Talkin' Blues") is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash.

Released in May 1971 as the second single (Columbia 4-45393, with "You've Got a New Light Shining" on the opposite side) from Cash's that year's album Man in Black, the song reached #18 on U.S. Billboard's country chart and #124 on Billboard's Bubbling Under the Hot 100.