Composed By
Don Reid

Just a picture on a table, just some letters Mama saved
And a costume brooch from England on the back it has engraved
To Eileen, I love you, London, 1943
and she never heard from him again, and he never heard of me.

Chorus:
And the war still ain't over for Mama
Every night in her dreams she still sees
The young face of someone who left her
Silver medals and sweet memories.

In Mama's bedroom closet, to this day on her top shelf
There's a flag folded 3-corner, layin' all by itself
and the sergeant would surely be honored to know how pretty she still is
And that after all these lonely years, his Eileen still lives.

Chorus:
And the war still ain't over for Mama
Every night in her dreams she still sees
The young face of someone who left her
Silver medals and sweet memories.

Silver medals and sweet memories...

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