Letters From War chords by Mark Schultz

Chords with lyrics

Difficulty: Novice

Capo 3
Intro: G, Am7, G/B, C2. X2

G+G     Am7Am7        G/BG/B   C2
     Am7Am7          G/BG/B   C2
   She walked to the mailbox,     On that bright summer's day
G+G         Am7Am7       G/BG/B  C2
(G+G) (D MajorD)   G+G
   Found a letter from her son,     in a war far away
G+G   Am7Am7       G/BG/B   C2   G+G
      Am7Am7         G/BG/B  C2
He spoke of the weather       And good friends that he'd made
              G+G            Am7Am7
     C2
Said, "I've been thinking 'bout Dad And the life that he had.
          (G+G) (D MajorD)      G+G
    G+G
That's why I'm here today." Then at the end he said
 G/DG/D          DsusDsus       C2
       DsusDsus         G+G  D/F#D/F#  C2 G/BG/B
"You are what I'm fighting for." It was the first of his letters from war.

C2       D MajorD           C2
   DsusDsus
She started writing Your good, and you're brave
       C2/E               D/F#D/F#
What a father that youll be some day
       C2           DsusDsus
Make it home, make it safe
    C2/E                  D/F#D/F#
She wrote every night as she prayed

 G+G  Am7Am7   G/BG/B    C2  G+G
      G/BG/B   C2
And late in December     A augmentedA day she'll not forget
 G+G          Am7Am7      G/BG/B  C2
    (G+G) D/F#D/F#    G+G
  Oh, her tears stained the paper  With every word that she read
          G+G              Am7Am7
It said I was up on a hill I was out there alone
          G/BG/B             C2
When the shots all rang out and bombs were exploding
G+G                     D/F#D/F#
That's when I saw him He came back for me
    C2                     G/DG/D
And though he was captured a man set me free
        C2 D/F#D/F#     G+G
   G+G
And that man was your son He asked me to write to you
  C2         DsusDsus      C majorC
      DsusDsus       G+G  D/F#D/F#  C/EC/E  B/D
I told him I would Oh I swore It was the last of the letters from war

        Am7Am7                G/BG/B
And she prayed he was living and kept on believing
     FF
And wrote every night just to say
       C2             DsusDsus
You are good, and you're brave
       C2/E               D/F#D/F#
What a father that youll be some day
       C2           DsusDsus
Make it home, make it safe
 C2/E                D/F#D/F#
Still she kept writing each day

G+G    Am7Am7          G/BG/B  C2
 And then, two years later,
G+G       Am7Am7      G/BG/B  C2
     Am7Am7     G/BG/B    C2
Autumn leaves all around         A augmentedA car pulled in the driveway
         (G+G)   D/F#D/F#       G+G
Am7Am7       G/BG/B  C2
And she   fell    to   the ground  And out stepped a captain
G+G        Am7Am7       G/BG/B     C2
        G+G        Am7Am7
Where her boy used to stand  he said, "Mom, I'm following orders
     G/BG/B      C2       C/EC/E
     G+G
From all of your letters and I've come home again
          D/F#D/F#   G+G     C/EC/E
         C majorC   G/BG/B
He ran in to hold   her and dropped all his bags on the floor
       C majorC       D7susD7sus         G+G
  C/EC/E   G/DG/D  C majorC  G/BG/B  C majorC
Holding all of her letters from war.

DsusDsus      G+G    D/F#D/F#  C/EC/E  G/DG/D
 C majorC  G/BG/B  C majorC
 Bring him home,
DsusDsus      G+G    D/F#D/F#  C/EC/E  G/DG/D
 C majorC  G/BG/B  C majorC
 Bring him home,
DsusDsus      G+G    D/F#D/F#  C/EC/E  G/DG/D
 C majorC  G/BG/B  Am7Am7  G/BG/B  C majorC
   G+G
 Bring him home,


THE END!