John Prine was ‘discovered’ by Kris Kristofferson on the Chicago folk scene and released his first album in 1971. The album called John Prine contained the song Sam Stone, which would become one of Prine’s signature songs.
The song is a painful reference to the phenomenon of morphine addiction among US war veterans as a result of its use to treat injuries in the Vietnam war.
This is John Prine performing Sam Stone in Dublin in 1989.
“There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose,”
John Prine – Sam Stone – Live 1989
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