A Letter From Home

Artist: Maybelle Carter (English)
User: Waeller Wutz
Duration: 152 seconds
Delay: 12 seconds
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Titel:  A Letter From Home
Artist: Maybelle Carter
Album:  Folk Legend (2006)
Orig.: G#

Intro:  G Am Bm A G 

 G                       D7         G
A cowboy rode in, on one hot dusty day
                              D
To a store down in old San Antone
     C                     G
He stood at the window and I heard him say
            D7           G
Do I have a letter from home

     G                            D7             G
The postmaster looked through the mail that had come
                               D
Then smilingly shook his gray head
     C                     G
The cowboy looked sadly a moment at him
                  D7             G
And these are the words that he said

 G                       C           G
No letter from home, no letter from home
                             D
There's never a letter from home
    G                      C          G
No message from mother or none of the others
                 D           G   Am Bm Am G
There's never a letter from home

  G                           D7             G
That night he was shot on the wrong side of town
                               D
No more on the plains will he roam
   C                        G
I reached for my Bible and took it to him
                       D7           G
Said, "Son here's your letter from home"

 G                    D7           G
"If only I had just a little more time
                               D
To read it", the young cowboy said
    C                        G
"I can't take it with me and I must go on"
                 D7        G
He died with his letter unread

 G                       C           G
No letter from home, no letter from home
                             D
There's never a letter from home
     G                        C        G
The cowboy lay dead with his letter unread
                  D           G
Too late for the letter from home

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