Tear Stained Letter chords by Johnny Cash

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
D

Verse:
            G
I'm going to write a tear stained letter
              D
I'm going to mail it straight to you
              D
I'm going to bring back to your mind
                     E7           A
What you said about always being true
          D
About our secret hiding places
                 G
Being daily satisfied
    D
I can see you sitting and reading it
        D
While you hang, you head and cry
         D
I just hope you're not so sad
             A             D
You're going to go down suicide
            G
I'm going to write a tear stained letter
         D
Put it special delivery
             D
Because it's gonna be full of stuff
              E7             A
That's only known to you and me
               D
About how every time I get turned on
                             G
You turn me off and bring me down
          D
It'll be about the darkest news
              D
That ever did arrive in your hometown
         D
It'll be about the saddest thing
              A              D
Your mailman ever did bring around
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I'm going to write a tear stained letter
                              D
I'm going to tell you one more time
          D
That you still could reconsider
         E7            A
And come back to being mine
         D
And if you think about what I'm saying
       D         G
It'd be hard to refuse
        D
Just be sure you think a long time
       D
On the answer that you choose
           D
It will be a most important piece
       A             D
Of personal, private news
             G
I'm going to write a tear stained letter
                          D
Mark it "Personal Private News"
            D
And I hope you'll keep it to yourself
          E7                    A
And don't go around crying the blues
        D
Giving off a bad impression
         D              G
As to what went really wrong
      D
When what it was, was that suddenly
      D
The music was all gone
         D
And this man and this woman got cut off
         A           D
In the middle of our song
             G
I'm going to write a tear stained letter
                         D
I'm going to put it to a tune
          D
So I'll be sending with it
        E7         A
A sweet melody for you
             D
And not some red-hot, upbeat zinger
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That'll set your body on fire
       D
But a hunk of love included
          D
Meant to take you a little higher
          D
And to settle on your sweet, sweet mind
    A               D
At night when you retire

Outro:
     G                                            End on D
I'm going to write a tear stained letter