Missing In Action-Jim Eanes

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[00:00.00]Missing In Action - Jim Eanes/The Shenandoah Valley Boys
[00:14.31]The warship had landed and I came ashore
[00:20.61]The fighting was over for me ever more
[00:27.88]For I had been wounded they left me for dead
[00:34.06]A stone for my pillow and snow for my bed
[00:41.43]The enemy found me and took me away
[00:47.46]And made me a prisoner of war so they say
[00:54.61]But God in his mercy was with me one day
[01:00.87]The gate was left open and I ran away
[01:08.20]I returned to the old home my sweet wife to see
[01:14.17]The home I had built for my darling and me
[01:21.63]The door I then opened and there on the stand
[01:28.00]I saw a picture of her and a man
[01:35.27]The clothes she was wearing told me the sad tale
[01:41.38]My darling was wearing a new bridal veil
[01:48.67]Then I found a letter and these words I read
[01:55.12]Missing in action she thought I was dead
[02:02.34]So I kissed her picture and whispered goodbye
[02:08.56]My poor heart was breaking but my eyes were dry
[02:15.97]I knew it was too late for her now to learn
[02:22.40]I knew she must never know I had returned
[02:29.74]A vagabond dreamer forever I'll roam
[02:35.91]Because there was no one to welcome me home
[02:43.37]The face of my darling no more I shall see
[02:49.63]For missing in action forever I'll be