I wrote this song about a friend who was a Vietnam Vet. The song simply says it: 'I stayed away too long / no need to come back home / my children don't know me and I lost touch with my wife / while I was gone they made a brand new life'. - Don Covay
Personnel & recording information
Lead guitar – David Wolfert
Rhythm session – Muscle Shoals Sound Band under the direction of Don Covay
Vocals – Don Covay
Recorded at in Muscle Shoals, AL
String arrangements by Horace Ott
Produced by Don Covay
Don Covay : Super Dude 1 USA, 1973 - LP - Mercury SRM-1-653 - labels w/ Philips, Mercury and Vertigo logos in the bottom, plus an arch of 7 Mercury logos on top
Don Covay : Super Dude 1 UK, 1973 - LP - Mercury 6338 211 - same cover & tracklisting as for the US
Don Covay : Super Dude 1 UK, 1973 - LP - Mercury 6338 211 - same cover & tracklisting as for the US - test pressing white labels
Don Covay : Super Dude 1 USA, 1973 - LP - Mercury SRM-1-653 - labels w/ a full circle of 12 Mercury logos
Don Covay : Checkin' In With Don Covay USA, 1988 - LP - Mercury 836 030-1 - compilation incl. the previously unreleased track 'There's Something On Your Mind'
Don Covay : Checkin' In With Don Covay USA, 1988 - CD - Mercury 836 030-2 - Compilation incl. the previously unreleased track 'There's Something On Your Mind' and bonus CD-track 'I Was Checkin' Out She Was Checkin' In' [alt. version]
Don Covay : Super Dude 1 USA, 1973 - LP - Mercury SRM-1-653 - promo white labels w/ a full circle of 12 Mercury logos
Don Covay : Checkin' In With Don Covay USA, 1988 - LP - Mercury 836 030-1 - compilation incl. the previously unreleased track 'There's Something On Your Mind' - test pressing, pressed by HRM / Hauppauge Record Manufacturing, Hauppauge, Long Island, NY