Mark Schultz - Letters from war
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Capo: 3
Capo 3
Intro: G, Am7, G/B, C2. X2
G Am7 G/B C2
Am7 G/B C2
She walked to the mailbox, On that bright summer's day
G Am7 G/B C2
(G) (D) G
Found a letter from her son, in a war far away
G Am7 G/B C2 G
Am7 G/B C2
He spoke of the weather And good friends that he'd made
G Am7
Said, "I'vC2e been thinking 'bout Dad And the life that he had.
(G) (D) G
That's Gwhy I'm here today." Then at the end he said
G/D Dsus C2
"You are whatDsus I'm fighting for." IGt wasD/F# the fiC2rst G/Bof his letters from war.
C2 D C2
She stDsusarted writing Your good, and you're brave
C2/E D/F#
What a father that youll be some day
Make it home, C2make it safe Dsus
C2/E D/F#
She wrote every night as she prayed
G Am7 G/B C2 G
G/B C2
And late in December A day she'll not forget
G Am7 G/B C2
(G) D/F# G
Oh, her tears stained the paper With every word that she read
It said I was up on Ga hill I was out there alone Am7
When the shots all rG/Bang out and bombs were explodC2ing
GThat's when I saw him He came back for me D/F#
And thouC2gh he was captured a man set me free G/D
C2 D/F# G
And thGat man was your son He asked me to write to you
C2 Dsus C
Dsus G D/F# C/E B/D
I told him I would Oh I swore It was the last of the letters from war
And she prayed Am7he was living and kept on believingG/B
And wroteF every night just to say
You are good, C2and you're brave Dsus
C2/E D/F#
What a father that youll be some day
Make it home, C2make it safe Dsus
C2/E D/F#
Still she kept writing each day
G And thAm7en, two years later, G/B C2
G Am7 G/B C2
Am7 G/B C2
Autumn leaves all around A car pulled in the driveway
(G) D/F# G
Am7And she fell G/B tC2o the ground And out stepped a captain
G Am7 G/B C2
Where her boy uGsed to stand hAm7e said, "Mom, I'm following orders
G/B C2 C/E
From all Gof your letters and I've come home again
D/F# G C/E
He ran in to hold C heG/Br and dropped all his bags on the floor
C D7sus G
HoldC/Eing all G/Dof her CletteG/Brs fromC war.
Dsus G D/F# C/E G/D
CBringG/B him hCome,
Dsus G D/F# C/E G/D
CBringG/B him hCome,
Dsus G D/F# C/E G/D
C G/B Am7 G/B C
G
Bring him home,