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Letters From War - Chords, Capo 1

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Capo on the 1st Fret

    F             C                               G    G7 C
She Walked to the mailbox on that bright Summer's day
        F           C            F   G    C     F
Found a letter from her son in a war far away. 
                C                                   G   G7
He spoke of the weather and good friends that he'd made
                C
Said "I've been thinking about dad and the life that he had that's 
    F   G    Am
why I'm here today."
                G      C      G            Am           F
And then at the end he said, "You are what I'm fighting for"
                        G            C
It was the first of the letters from war.

Chorus:
     F          G                G C           G C
And she started writing "You are good and your brave
        C           F          G
What a father that you'll be someday,
        G C         G C          F                        G     G7 C
Make it home make it safe," She wrote every night as she prayed.

      F         C                       G    G7 C
Then late in December a day she'll not forget
          F               C                 F   G        C
oh, her tears stained the paper with every word that she read
               G       C           G         C
It said "I was up on a hill I was out there alone
         G                      F
When the shots all rang out and bombs were exploding
G             C           G             C
That's when I saw him, he came back for me
      G           C          F          G
And though he was captured a man set me free
         F   G        Am                 G        C
And that man was your son he asked me to write to you
             G            Am
I told him I would, oh, I swore,"
            F           G           C
It was the last of the letters from war. 
         Am
And she prayed he was living
C                      F
Kept on believing and wrote every night just to say.

Chorus:
         G C           G C
"You are good and your brave
        C           F          G
What a father that you'll be someday,
        G C         G C          F                        G     G7 C
Make it home make it safe," and so she kept writing each day.

 F             C                         G    G7 C
Then two years later, Autumn leaves all around
        F           C                 F    G       C     F
A car pulls in the drive way, and she fell to the ground
                C                                 G
And out steps a Captain where her boy used to stand 
                 C         G           C            G
He said "Mom I'm following orders from all of your letters
    F          G     Am
And I've come home again."
             G    C    Am             G             Am
He ran in to hold her dropped all his bags on the floor
        F          G            C
Holding all of her letters from war
          G C
Bring him home
          G C
Bring him home
          G C
Bring him home

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