Capo on the 1st fret 
 
    F5             C5                               G5    G5 C5 
She Walked to the mailbox on that bright Summer's day 
        F5           C5            F5   G5    C5     F5 
Found a letter from her son in a war far away.  
                C5                                   G5   G5 
He spoke of the weather and good friends that he'd made 
                C5 
Said "I've been thinking about dad and the life that he had that's  
    F5   G5    A5 
why I'm here today." 
                G5      C5      G5            A5           F5 
And then at the end he said, "You are what I'm fighting for" 
                        G5            C5 
It was the first of the letters from war. 
 
Chorus: 
     F5          G5                G5 C5           G5 C5 
And she started writing "You are good and your brave 
        C5           F5          G5 
What a father that you'll be someday, 
        G5 C5         G5 C5          F5                        G5     G5 C5 
Make it home make it safe," She wrote every night as she prayed. 
 

      F5         C5                       G5    G5 C5 
Then late in December a day she'll not forget 
          F5               C5                 F5   G5        C5 
oh, her tears stained the paper with every word that she read 
               G5       C5           G5         C5 
It said "I was up on a hill I was out there alone 
         G5                      F5 
When the shots all rang out and bombs were exploding 
G5             C5           G5             C5 
That's when I saw him , he came back for me 
      G5           C5          F5          G5 
And though he was captured a man set me free 
         F5   G5        A5                 G5        C5 
And that man was your son he asked me to write to you 
             G5            A5 
I told him I would, oh, I swore," 
            F5           G5           C5 
It was the last of the letters from war.  
         A5 
And she prayed he was living 
C5                      F5 
Kept on believing and wrote every night just to say. 
 
Chorus: 
         G5 C5           G5 C5 
"You are good and your brave 
        C5           F5          G5 
What a father that you'll be someday, 
        G5 C5         G5 C5          F5                        G5     G5 C5 
Make it home make it safe," and so she kept writing each day. 
 

 F5             C5                         G5    G5 C5 
Then two years later, Autumn leaves all around 
        F5           C5                 F5    G5       C5     F5 
A car pulls in the drive way, and she fell to the ground 
                C5                                 G5 
And out steps a Captain where her boy used to stand  
                 C5         G5           C5            G5 
He said "Mom I'm following orders from all of your letters 
    F5          G5     A5 
And I've come home again." 
             G5    C5    A5             G5             A5 
He ran in to hold her dropped all his bags on the floor 
        F5          G5            C5 
Holding all of her letters from war 
          G5 C5 
Bring him home 
          G5 C5 
Bring him home 
          G5 C5 
Bring him home
Show more



Loading YouTube video ...