Johnny Cash - A Letter From Home guitar chord

A LETTER FROM HOME

Maybelle Carter

Album: Johnny Cash Sings The Ballads of the True West

KEY: A

INTRO: A D A E A

VERSE:

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A cowpoke rode in one hot dusty day

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To a store down in old San Antone

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He stood at the window and I heard him say

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Do I have a letter from 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:

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No letter from home, no letter from home

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There's never a letter from home

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No message from Mother or none of the others

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There's never a letter from home

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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