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No Flag In The Window

Me and Vicky and her mom went for ice cream one afternoon
Two officers in a blue car were at her house when we got through
Two young girls went off to play
On a sunny southern day
While her momma got the news
Vicky’s daddy was MIA

There was no flag to hang in the window
No way to show that we were marking time
No yellow ribbon wrapped ‘round a tree in the front yard
But all the same the fear was hers and mine

My Mom and Daddy came from next door and we all cried together
Not knowing if the fear was gonna last forever
Silent prayers, prayed through tears
Growing up through eight more years
Two young women carried hope her daddy would come home

There was no flag to hang in the window
No way to show that we were marking time
No yellow ribbon wrapped ‘round a tree in the front yard
But all the same the fear was hers and mine

I was not around
I was college bound
When her daddy stepped off that plane alive

There was no flag to hang in the window
No way to show that we were marking time
No yellow ribbon wrapped ‘round a tree in the front yard
But all the same the fear was hers and mine
And I’ve carried it with me all of this time

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from SW​:​S Retreat, October 2021, Heart J Center Colorado, released October 29, 2021
Ann Dorwart / Radney Foster

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