Capo on the 1st fret
 
    F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1)                             G (320003@1)  G7 (320001@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 
She Walked to the mailbox on that bright Summer's day 
        F (133211@1)         C (x32010@1)          F (133211@1) G (320003@1)  C (x32010@1)   F (133211@1)Found a letter from her son in a war far away.  
                C (x32010@1)                                 G (320003@1) G7 (320001@1)He spoke of the weather and good friends that he'd made 
                C (x32010@1)Said "I've been thinking about dad and the life that he had that's  
    F (133211@1) G (320003@1)  Am (x02210@1)why I'm here today." 
                G (320003@1)    C (x32010@1)    G (320003@1)          Am (x02210@1)         F (133211@1)And then at the end he said, "You are what I'm fighting for" 
                        G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)It was the first of the letters from war. 
 
Chorus: 
     F (133211@1)        G (320003@1)              G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C           G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 
And she started writing "You are good and your brave 
        C (x32010@1)         F (133211@1)        G (320003@1)What a father that you'll be someday, 
        G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C         G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C          F (133211@1)                      G (320003@1)   G7 (320001@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 
Make it home make it safe," She wrote every night as she prayed. 
 
      F (133211@1)       C (x32010@1)                     G (320003@1)  G7 (320001@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 
Then late in December a day she'll not forget 
          F (133211@1)             C (x32010@1)               F (133211@1) G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1)oh, her tears stained the paper with every word that she read 
               G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)       C (x32010@1)It said "I was up on a hill I was out there alone 
         G (320003@1)                    F (133211@1)When the shots all rang out and bombs were exploding 
G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)That's when I saw him, he came back for me 
      G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1)        F (133211@1)        G (320003@1)And though he was captured a man set me free 
         F (133211@1) G (320003@1)      Am (x02210@1)               G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1)And that man was your son he asked me to write to you 
             G (320003@1)          Am (x02210@1)I told him I would, oh, I swore," 
            F (133211@1)         G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1)It was the last of the letters from war.  
         Am (x02210@1)And she prayed he was living 
C (x32010@1)                    F (133211@1)Kept on believing and wrote every night just to say. 
 
Chorus: 
         G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C           G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 
"You are good and your brave 
        C (x32010@1)         F (133211@1)        G (320003@1)What a father that you'll be someday, 
        G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C         G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C          F (133211@1)                      G (320003@1)   G7 (320001@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 
Make it home make it safe," and so she kept writing each day. 
 
 F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1)                       G (320003@1)  G7 (320001@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 
Then two years later, Autumn leaves all around 
        F (133211@1)         C (x32010@1)               F (133211@1)  G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)   F (133211@1)A car pulls in the drive way, and she fell to the ground 
                C (x32010@1)                               G (320003@1)And out steps a Captain where her boy used to stand  
                 C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1)He said "Mom I'm following orders from all of your letters 
    F (133211@1)        G (320003@1)   Am (x02210@1)And I've come home again." 
             G (320003@1)  C (x32010@1)  Am (x02210@1)           G (320003@1)           Am (x02210@1)He ran in to hold her dropped all his bags on the floor 
        F (133211@1)        G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)Holding all of her letters from war 
          G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 
Bring him home 
          G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 
Bring him home 
          G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C 
Bring him home 

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