This is a very intense song describing how a Vet feels in every day life, where the snap of a twig can sound like gunfire.  A co-write between Colonel Garry Thomas and Alice C. Bateman, I Am a Vet is produced by John Heinrich with vocals by Michael Lusk.  This song honors every Veteran and is intended to help in whatever ways a song can help.

I Am A Vet

The night before the Canadian Remembrance Day in 2015, I began to think it's all very nice that we honor our Deceased Military one one specific day - but what about off of those living Veterans, all the serving Members of our Armed Forces?  This was the answer to that line of thought.  I'm always trying to find more ways this could be used to raise, if you can think of a way, please simply do it, as long as I have Songwriter credit, whatever you want to do is fine.

REMEMBER ALL THE FALLEN Canadian Version

Cowboy Poetry written by Alice C. Bateman for her friend Lamont Martinez and set to music by Antony Martinez performing as TONE-DAWG.  The story of an Old Cowboy's last night on the range...

COWBOY JACK

Still brings tears to my eyes to think of how this song came about.  As it says at the beginning, "I was standing there washing the dishes, on the day that Merle Haggard died..."  And then suddenly there was Merle's voice right there in my own head, dictating his last words to us.  Somehow, the track that JK Coltrain of Colt Records in Nashville has produced sound so much like how Merle sounded in my little head...  Wow!!

MERLE SAYS GOODBYE

This is Alice's favorite song for as long as she can remember, she first began to sing it at four or five years old.  Jim Reeves did this version, and Alice's is a Cover or his SCARLET RIBBONS.

SCARLETT RIBBONS Cover by Alice C. Bateman

Alice C. Bateman writes in several different genres, but the songs closest to her heart are the Fundraising songs for Armed Forces personnel and their families.  This song is one of those, a mother who lost her only son on his first tour of duty, so Christmas has become "a special kind of hell" for her.

YOU WONT BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

This is a slower tempo Cover of Roy Orbison's IN DREAMS recorded by Alice C. Bateman.  So many of us have lost too many people, and this song talks about how we dream of our lost loved ones as if they are still alive, and then have to realize all over again when we wake up that they're gone.