A Letter From Home Johnny Cash
Maybelle Carter
KEY: A
INTRO: A D A E A
VERSE:
[A]A cowpoke rode in one [E]hot dusty [A]day
[A]To a store down in old San An[E]tone
[E]He [D]stood at the window and [A]I heard him [F#m]say
[A]Do I have a [E]letter from [A]home
The postmaster looked through the mail that had come
Then smilingly shook his grey head
The cowpoke looked sadly a moment at him
And these are the words that he said
CHORUS:
[A]No letter from home, no [D]letter from [A]home
[A]There's never a letter from [E]home
[E]No [A]message from Mother or [D]none of the [A]others
[A]There's never a [E]letter from [A]home
BREAK: A E A
VERSE:
That night he was shot on the wrong side of town
No more on those plains will he roam
I reached for my Bible and gave it to him and said
Son here's your letter from home
If only I had just a little more time
To read it The young cowboy said
I can't take it with me and I must go on
Then he died with his letter unread
CHORUS:
The letter from home, the letter from home
No time for the letter from home
The cowboy lay dead with his letter unread
Too late for the letter from home
OUTRO: A E A
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