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Capo 3
Intro: G, Am7, G/B, C2. X2
G Am7 G/B C2
Am7 G/B C2
She walked to the mailbox, On that bright summer’s day
G Am7 G/B C2
(G) (D) G
Found a letter from her son, in a war far away
G Am7 G/B C2 G
Am7 G/B C2
He spoke of the weather And good friends that he’d made
G Am7
C2
Said, “I’ve been thinking ‘bout Dad And the life that he had.
(G) (D) G
G
That’s why I’m here today.” Then at the end he said
G/D Dsus4 C2
Dsus4 G D/F# C2 G/B
“You are what I’m fighting for.” It was the first of his letters from war.
C2 D C2
Dsus4
She started writing Your good, and you’re brave
C2/E D/F#
What a father that youll be some day
C2 Dsus4
Make it home, make it safe
C2/E D/F#
She wrote every night as she prayed
G Am7 G/B C2 G
G/B C2
And late in December A day she’ll not forget
G Am7 G/B C2
(G) D/F# G
Oh, her tears stained the paper With every word that she read
G Am7
It said I was up on a hill I was out there alone
G/B C2
When the shots all rang out and bombs were exploding
G D/F#
That’s when I saw him He came back for me
C2 G/D
And though he was captured a man set me free
C2 D/F# G
G
And that man was your son He asked me to write to you
C2 Dsus4 C
Dsus4 G D/F# C/E B/D
I told him I would Oh I swore It was the last of the letters from war
Am7 G/B
And she prayed he was living and kept on believing
F
And wrote every night just to say
C2 Dsus4
You are good, and you’re brave
C2/E D/F#
What a father that youll be some day
C2 Dsus4
Make it home, make it safe
C2/E D/F#
Still she kept writing each day
G Am7 G/B C2
And then, two years later,
G Am7 G/B C2
Am7 G/B C2
Autumn leaves all around A car pulled in the driveway
(G) D/F# G
Am7 G/B C2
And she fell to the ground And out stepped a captain
G Am7 G/B C2
G Am7
Where her boy used to stand he said, “Mom, I’m following orders
G/B C2 C/E
G
From all of your letters and I’ve come home again
D/F# G C/E
C G/B
He ran in to hold her and dropped all his bags on the floor
C D7sus4 G
C/E G/D C G/B C
Holding all of her letters from war.
Dsus4 G D/F# C/E G/D
C G/B C
Bring him home,
Dsus4 G D/F# C/E G/D
C G/B C
Bring him home,
Dsus4 G D/F# C/E G/D
C G/B Am7 G/B C
… G
Bring him home,
