The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home

Tour was up in middle of June

She was planning a welcome home barbeque

Green bean casserole, Grandma's recipe

There was a knock on the door around two o'clock

Two uniforms and her heart stopped

Yellow ribbon 'round an oak tree

Blowin' in the breeze

And here's to the ones that didn't make it back home

The ones we ain't seen in so long

The hold up a beer ones

The wish they were here ones

The not forgotten but gone

In a better place up there

But they sure left a hole down here

We just go on living and go on missin' the ones

The ones that didn't make it back home

The whole town shut down, the whole town showed up

Sang Amazing Grace, watched a slideshow of his twenty two years

There was laughs and there was tears

And that preacher talked about sacrifice

And the traffic stopped for them Cadillac lines

Johnny sold beer half price that night

And everybody raised 'em high singin'

Here's to the ones that didn't make it back home

The ones we ain't seen in so long

The hold up a beer ones

The wish they were here ones

The not forgotten but gone

In a better place up there

But they sure left a hole down here

We just go on living and go on missin' the ones

The ones that didn't make it back home

Back to that front porch

Back through that front door

To the life they were fighting for

Here's to the ones that didn't make it back home

The ones we ain't seen in so long

The hold up a beer ones

The wish they were here ones

The not forgotten but gone

They're in a better place up there

But they sure left a hole down here

We just go on living and go on missin' the ones

The ones that didn't make it back home

The ones that didn't make it back home