Missing In Action
Composer(s): Helen Kays; Arthur Q. Smith
Performer(s): Ernest Tubb; 
Jim Eanes & His Shenandoah Valley Boys



The warships had landed and I came ashore
the fighting was over for me evermore
For I had been wounded, they left me for dead
a stone for my pillow and snow for my bed
The enemy found me and took me away
and made me a prisoner of war so they say
but God in his mercy was with me one day
the gate was left open and I ran away

I returned to the old home, my sweet wife to see
the home I had built for my darling and me
The door was left open and there on a stand
I waw a picture of her and a man
The clothes she was wearing told me a sad tale
my darling was wearing a new bridal veil
Then I found a letter and these words I read
"Missing in Action" 
She thought I was dead

So I kissed her picture and whispered good-bye
my poor heart was breading but my eyes were dry
I know she'd be happy if she never learned
I know she must never know I had returned
A vagabond dreamer forever I'll roam
because there was no one to welcome me home
The face of my darling no more will I see
for Missing in Action for ever I'll be