Copied from the Max Hunter Collection. (Link given above) I made a few adjustments to spelling and punctuation.

WARSHIP THAT LANDED
(From the singing of Ollie Gilbert, Mountain View, Arkansas, 1969.)

The warship had landed and I was ashore.
The fighting was over for me evermore.
I was wounded. They left me for dead
Stone for my pillow, and snow for my bed.

The enemy found me and took me away.
They made me a prisoner of war, so they say.
But God in his mercy was with me one day.
The gates were left open, and I ran away.

I returned to my old home, my sweet wife to see.
The home that I'd built for my darling and me.
The door it was open and there on a stand
Was a picture of her and a man.

The clothes she was wearing told the sad tale.
My darling was wearing a new bridal veil.
There was a letter. In these words it read:
"Missing in action." She thought I was dead!

I kissed her picture and whispered goodbye.
My poor heart was broken; my eyes they were dry.
I knew it was too late for her now to learn.
I knew she must never know I had returned.

Wayworn I wander. Forever I roam,
For there is no one to welcome me home.
The face of my darling no more I shall see.
Missing in action forever I'll be.