Dear Uncle Sam

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Dear Uncle Sam is a song written and performed by Loretta Lynn. She recorded it for Decca and released it as a single in January 1966. It later appeared on her 1966 album I Like 'Em Country. The B-side of the single was "Hurtin' for Certain." The recording took place on November 15, 1965 at the Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, produced by Owen Bradley. The song is 2 minutes and 14 seconds long and falls in the honky tonk country style. It is told from the perspective of a wife whose husband is going to war in Vietnam, making it one of the early country songs to address war. It reached number four on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, becoming Loretta Lynn’s seventh top ten country hit. It was her second self-penned chart entry, following "I’m a Honky Tonk Girl" from 1960.