Tour was up, middle of june

She was planning a welcome home barbeque

Green bean casserole, grandma's recipe

There was a knock on the door 'round 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

They're 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 slideshow of

His twenty two 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 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

They're 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

They're 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.