SILVER MEDALS & SWEET MEMORIES
written by Don Reid
sung by the Statler Brothers
from the Best of Rides Again, Volume 2 (1979)
E - - - B7 - - - E / / / 2 /
B7 E A E
Just a picture on a table, just some letters Mama saved
B7 E F#m B7
& a costume brooch from England that has on the back engraved
E B7 E A E
"To Eileen, I love you, London, 1943"
B7 E F#m B7 E
But she never heard from him again, & he never heard of me
CHORUS:
B7 E
& the war still ain't over for Mama
A B
Every night in her dreams she still sees
E B7 E
The young face of someone who brought her
A B7 E
Silver medals & sweet memories
Verse 2:
In Mama's bedroom closet, to this day on her top shelf
There's a flag folded 3-cornered, layin' by itself
The sergeant would surely be honored to know how pretty she still is
& after all these lonely years, his Eileen still lives
(chorus, then repeat its last line)
