Blue Highway - Homeless Man lyrics

(Wayne Taylor/Forty WAT Music, BMI) They called him Skeet, his name was Bill Corporal William Howard Campbell They never knew and never will He did his time with the 101 They took a simple country boy And taught him how to use a gun After four long years in service Two tours in Vietnam The country that he served so well Doesn't seem to give a damn That he's a homeless man He has a son, lives in L.A He hasn't spoke to him in twenty years He just don't know what to say He had a loving wife, she was his right hand Till the nightmares and the memories Became more that she could stand Now he has everything he owns In a worn-out shopping cart He's never begged for anything He just doesn't have the heart He's just a homeless man Now in this land of plenty Where so many have it all He sleeps in an alley half a block from city hall They found him there one cold November night Though he'd won so many battles This time he'd lost the fight No one seemed to care that he was gone They laid him in a pauper's grave With a tiny little stone As a young man and his mother Sat alone and cried Holding the Silver Star medallion Someone found there by his side He was a homeless man He was just a homeless man