Expert: Mel Priddle - 5/15/2009

Question
Could you please tell me the Song title, that has the lyrics as follows.  The warship had landed, etc, etc.
It is a song about a soldier missing in action and when he returns his love has married someone else.  published in the fifties.

Answer
Hello Barbara,

That's the Ernest Tubb song, "Missing In Action"..........

The warship had landed and I came ashore
The fighting was over for me ever more
For I had been wounded and left there 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 gates were left open and I ran away

I returned to my old home my sweet wife to see
The home I had built for my darling and me
The door I let open and there on a stand
I saw 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
There on the mantle a letter I read
Missing in action, she thought I was dead

So I kissed her picture and whispered goodbye
My poor heart was breaking but my eyes were dry
I knew it was too late for her now to learn
I knew 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 I shall see
For missing in action forever I'll be


Glad to be of help. Cheers........Mel.