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"Sam Stone" is a song written by John Prine about a drug-addicted veteran with a Purple Heart and his death by overdose. It appeared on Prine's eponymous 1971 debut album. The song was originally titled "Great Society Conflict Veteran's Blues". The most familiar refrain in the song is "There's a hole in daddy's arm, where all the money goes." The song is usually interpreted as a reference to the phenomenon of heroin or morphine addiction among Vietnam war veterans. (An identical surge of addiction followed the Civil War, where morphine addiction was known as 'Soldiers Disease'). The song does not mention the Vietnam War, saying only that Sam returned from "serving in the conflict overseas." There is a single explicit reference to morphine but Prine alludes to heroin on several occasions including the use of the term "habit," slang commonly associated with heroin use, and the line "he popped his last ''balloon''," very likely referring to one of the ways in which street heroin is commonly packaged - in small rubber balloons.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Special Investigations Heroin )〕 ==Mentions in Print== ''Time'' magazine July 24, 1972 () "Sam Stone" ranked eighth in a Rolling Stone magazine poll of the ten saddest songs of all time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sam Stone (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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