The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home

Tour was up middle of June

She was plannin' a welcome home barbecue

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

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 livin' 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 slide show of

His 22 years there was laughs and there was tears

And that preacher talked about sacrifice

And traffic stopped for them Cadillac lights

Johnny sold beer half priced 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 livin' 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 fightin' 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

In a better place up there

But they sure left a hole down here

We just go on livin' and go on missin'

The ones the ones that didn't make it back home

The ones that didn't make it back home