Letters From War Chords by Mark Schultz

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_ _ _ [D#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
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She walked to the mailbox _ [C#] on that bright summer's day
_ [C#] _ _ [D#] Found a letter [C#] from her son [G#] in a war far [C#] away
He _ _ [D#m] spoke of the [F#] weather _ and [D#m] good friends [C#] that he'd made
[F#] _ [C#] Said, I've been thinking [D#m] about that and [C#] the life that [F#] he had
That's [A#m] why I'm [G#] here today
[C#] And then at the end he said, [F#]
you [C#] are what I'm fighting for
It [F#] was the first of his [G#] letters from [C#] war
[G#] _ _ [A#m] _
_ [C#] _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] She [G#] started writing [C#] your good and [G#] your brave
[A#m] What a father that you'll [G#] be someday _
Make it [C#] hard, make it safe _
[A#m] She wrote every night as [G#] she prayed
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [D#] Late in [C#] December, _ a [D#] day she'll not forget
[C#] _ _ All [D#m] her tears stained [C#] the paper [F#] with every [G#] word that she [C#] read
Said, I was up on a hill, [D#m] I was out there alone
When [C#] the shot call rang out, it was for Rick Flody
_ That's when I saw him, [G#] he came back for me
[A#m] So he was captured, [C#] a man set me free
[F#] That man [Fm] was [C#] your son, he asked me [G#] to write [C#] to you
[A#m] I told him I would, oh I [F#] swore
[C#] It was the last of the letters from war
[G#] _ _ [A#m] _ _
And she [D#m] prayed he was [C#] living, kept on believing
[G#] And wrote every night just to say
You are good and [D#] you're brave
What [A#m] a father that [G#] you'll be someday
_ [C#] Make it hard, make it safe
_ [A#m]
So she kept writing [G#] each _ day _
_ _ [C#] _ _ Then two years later, _ _ autumn leaves [Fm] all around
A [C#] _ [D#] car pulled in [Fm] the driveway [F#] and she fell [G#] to the [C#] ground _
_ _ _ And out stepped a captain [F#] _
_ [G#] where [D#m] her boy used [C#] to stay
[F#] He said, [C#] Mom, I'm following [D#] orders
_ [C#] Mom, I've got your letters [F#] and I've [G#] come home [C#] again
He ran into a holder, [A#m] dropped [C#] his bags on the floor
Holding all of her letters from war
_ [G#] _ _ [A#m] _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ Bring him home, [G#] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ bring him home, _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G#] bring [C#] him home
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