Grover Henson feels forgotten

World, I'm writing you this letter

And I'm not the kind of guy

Who likes to complain but this morning

Private Grover Henson really felt forgotten

And you couldn't have picked a worse time

To drop that lonely morning rain

There's mail call again this morning and

I just disappeared from the end of the line

I guess you'd say, I've run out of excuses

About those lost letters of mine

Did you know that last year's income tax

Was the only mail I've gotten, that's right

And they said I still owed a hundred bucks

And Grover Henson feels forgotten

(Grover Henson feels forgotten)

So, I wrote myself a letter

Mmm hmm, are you ready for me

Yes, I did, and I must have read it

To just about everyone

I signed it, your loving mother and

I addressed it to her favorite son

But God knows I've never known her

And I've never known her love

The only dad I ever had

Was my father up above

And, world, Grover Henson feels

Forgotten in this early morning rain

World, if my time should come tomorrow

Could I ask one thing of you

Would you send me one little letter, world

If it's not too much to do

And could you have it

Read to me by a choir

I'd hear it wherever I lie

And Grover Henson

Wouldn't feel forgotten

If his time should come to die