Silver Medals And Sweet Memories Lyrics - The Statler Brothers

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 

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-cornered 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's still his 

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