AND just add a few chords to it and VIOLA!

MISSING IN ACTION
Recorded by Ernest Tubb
Writers: Helen Kaye & Arthur Q. Smith

[C] The warship had landed and [F] I'd come a-[C] shore.
The [F] fighting was [C] over for [D] me ever-[G7] more,
For [C] I had been wounded; they [F] left me for [C] dead,
A [F] stone for my [C] pillow and [G7] snow for my [C] bed.

The [G7] enemy found me and [C] took me away,
And [D] made me a pris'ner of [G] war, so they [G7] say;
But [C] God in his mercy was [F] with me one [C] day.
The [F] gate was left [C] open and [G7] I ran a-[C] way.

I returned to the old home my sweet wife to see--
The home I had built for my darling and me.
The door I then opened and there on a stand
I saw a picture of her and a man.

The clothes she was wearin' told me the sad tale:
My darling was wearing a new bridal veil.
Then I found a letter and these words I read:
"Missing in action"--she thought I was dead!

So I kissed her picture and whispered goodbye.
My poor heart was breakin' 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.
^^