Johnny Cash - A letter from home
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Capo: 4
//Capo on 4
//For a little extra bass variation whilst playing, open up the A-string on the G
chord and the D-string on the C-chord every other strum.
//Intro
G C G D G
//Verse
GA cowpoke rode in one hot dusty day
GTo a store down in old San AnDtone
He Cstood at the window and GI heard him say
GDo I have a Dletter from Ghome
GThe postmaster looked through the mail that had come
GThen smilingly shook his greDy head
The Ccowpoke looked sadly a Gmoment at him
GAnd these are the Dwords that he Gsaid
//Chorus
GNo letter from home, no Cletter from Ghome
GThere's never a letter from Dhome
GNo message from Mother or Cnone of the Gothers
GThere's never a Dletter from Ghome
//Break
G D G
//Repeat 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
//Repeat 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
G D G
//This obviously doesn't do Cash's song any justice, but it's fun to play and sing
along to. Hope this helped you out. -Seb B.