Johnny Cash - A Letter from Home: chords

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A cowpoke rode in one hot dusty day
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To a store down in old San Antone
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He stood at the window and I heard him say
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Do I have a letter from home

The postmaster looked through the mail that had come
Then smilingly shook his grey head
The cowpoke looked sadly a moment at him
And these are the words that he said

Chorus:
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No letter from home, no letter from home
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There's never a letter from home
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No message from Mother or none of the others
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There's never a letter from home

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

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