Jeremiah

Your picture is in the paper

With a couple quotes from someone I don't know

They gotta say something I guess

When soldiers don't come home

They say you died out in the desert

With a name I can't pronounce

I can't remember if I said I loved you

But that don't matter now

Sisters cry and dads can't speak

Girls like me sleep alone

A mother's work is never done

When soldiers don't come home

The flowers are gone now

Just one left in the scrapbook

And the petals keep coming off

I gotta find somewhere else to keep it

Before it all gets lost

I'll tell your boy all about you

Just like you he's gonna be tall

You were a good man Jeremiah

I'm gonna try to remember it all

Sisters cry and dads can't speak

Girls like me sleep alone

A mother's work is never done

When soldiers don't come home

A gold star, what's that mean

Hanging in a window frame

Stars belong up in the sky

Well maybe that's the reason

Sisters cry and dads can't speak

Girls like me sleep alone

A mother's work is never done

When soldiers don't come home

When soldiers don't come home