Intro: G, Am7, G/B, C2. X2
GAm7G/BC2Am7G/BC2
She walked to the mailbox, On that bright summer’s day
GAm7G/BC2
(G) (D)G
Found a letter from her son, in a war far away
GAm7G/BC2GAm7G/BC2
He spoke of the weather And good friends that he’d made
GAm7C2
Said, “I’ve been thinking ‘bout Dad And the life that he had.
(G) (D)GG
That’s why I’m here today.” Then at the end he said
G/DDsusC2DsusGD/F#C2G/B
“You are what I’m fighting for.” It was the first of his letters from war.
C2DC2Dsus
She started writing Your good, and you’re brave
C2/ED/F#
What a father that youll be some day
C2Dsus
Make it home, make it safe
C2/ED/F#
She wrote every night as she prayed
GAm7G/BC2GG/BC2
And late in December A day she’ll not forget
GAm7G/BC2
(G)D/F#G
Oh, her tears stained the paper With every word that she read
GAm7
It said I was up on a hill I was out there alone
G/BC2
When the shots all rang out and bombs were exploding
GD/F#
That’s when I saw him He came back for me
C2G/D
And though he was captured a man set me free
C2D/F#GG
And that man was your son He asked me to write to you
C2DsusCDsusGD/F#C/EB/D
I told him I would Oh I swore It was the last of the letters from war
Am7G/B
And she prayed he was living and kept on believing
F
And wrote every night just to say
C2Dsus
You are good, and you’re brave
C2/ED/F#
What a father that youll be some day
C2Dsus
Make it home, make it safe
C2/ED/F#
Still she kept writing each day
GAm7G/BC2
And then, two years later,
GAm7G/BC2Am7G/BC2
Autumn leaves all around A car pulled in the driveway
(G)D/F#GAm7G/BC2
And she fell to the ground And out stepped a captain
GAm7G/BC2GAm7
Where her boy used to stand he said, “Mom, I’m following orders
G/BC2C/EG
From all of your letters and I’ve come home again
D/F#GC/ECG/B
He ran in to hold her and dropped all his bags on the floor
CD7susGC/EG/DCG/BC
Holding all of her letters from war.
DsusGD/F#C/EG/DCG/BC
Bring him home,
DsusGD/F#C/EG/DCG/BC
Bring him home,
DsusGD/F#C/EG/DCG/BAm7G/BC
… G
Bring him home,
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