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