Letter Home Chords by The Forester Sisters

_ Dear _ Mama, _ I hope that [Bb] you're alright. _
[F] I can hear the thunder [Bb] _ rolling [Eb] across the southern sky [Bb] tonight. _ _
Kids are asleep in the TV zone and I'm sitting here _ alone. _
[Eb] And I just thought I'd write this [Bb] letter home. _ _ _ _ _ _
I was the one you were counting on, the family's high school star. _
Jimmy and me ran up that slum and Buster [Eb] broke a new and daddy's heart.
_ [Bb]
Yeah, we didn't need _ nobody's help, we were eighteen years and grown. _ _
[Eb] And I never sent a single letter [Bb] home. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Eb] Letters all _ [Dm] fill _ me with [Eb] _ _ dreams, [F] asking if I'd known [Eb] what I _ [Dm] was, would it even have changed [F] a _ thing?
The hardest part [Bb] of looking back [Eb] is the mistakes for all [Bb] your own. _ _
[Eb] It's hard to say that in those letters [Bb] home.
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Jimmy found somebody else, he told me that on New Year's Day. _
He said he felt like a man with her [Eb] and I watched him drive [Eb] away.
_ [Bb] _
Children and rent, there was no time for tears, just time to carry _ on.
I [Eb] didn't know how to tell you, so there was no letter [Bb] home. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Eb] Letters all _
[Dm] _ fill me with [Eb] _ _ dreams, [F] asking if I'd known [Eb] what I was, _ [Dm] would it even have changed a [F] thing? _
The hardest part [Bb] of looking back is [Eb] the mistakes for all [Bb] your own. _
[Eb] You just can't hide them in those letters [Bb] home. _ _ _ _ _ _
Working a place with some other girls and we're all doing _ alright. _ _
We raise our kids in a jeans still fit [Eb] and sometimes we go out at night. _
[Bb] I'm twenty-nine years young today and I've been there to the bone. _
[Eb] And I just wanted to send you this letter [Bb] home. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Eb] Letters all _
[Dm] fill me [Eb] with dreams, [F] asking if I'd known [Eb] what I _ [Dm] was, would it even have changed [F] a thing? _
The hardest part [Bb] of looking back [Eb] is the mistakes for [Bb] _ _ _
all your own.
It's hard to say that in those letters home. _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] Yeah, it's so hard to say that in those letters [Bb] home. _ _ _ _ _ _
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