Huh ? I believe it's John Prine
He wrote it, but that's not the song. Remember if you will:
Sam Stone came home to the wife and family, after serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served had shattered all his nerves and left a little shrapnel in his knees.
But the morhpine eased the pain and the grass grew round his brain and gave him all the confidence he lacked, with a purple heart and a monkey on his back.
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears don't stop to count the years sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
And that's as much as I can remember without a rhythm accompaniment.