Capo 1 
 
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Dear mama, I hope that your alright 
      A5                                   D5             
I can hear the thunder rolling across the southern sky tonight 
A5 
Kid's are asleep and the TV?s on and I'm sitting here alone 
    D5                                    D5 
And I just thought I'd write this letter home 
 

A5 
I was the one you were counting on, the family's high school star 
     A5                                          D5 
When Jimmy and me ran off that summer must have broken you and daddy's heart 
     A5  
Yeah we didn't need nobody's help we were 18 years and grown 
    D5                            A5 
And I never sent a single letter home 


E5       D5       A5                D5        
Letters home, I wrote them in my dreams 
       E5                 D5                   A5                   E5        
Asking if I'd known what I know now would it even have changed a thing 
    E5               D5                      A5 
The hardest part of looking back is the mistakes are all your own 
     D5                                   A5 
It's harder to say that in those letters home  
 
 
Jimmy found somebody else, he told me that on new year's day 
Said he felt like a man with her as I watched him drive away 
Children and rent there was no time for tears just time to carry on 
I didn't know how to tell you so there was no letter home 
 
 
Chorus 
 
 
I work in a place with some other girls and we're all doing alright 
Raise our kids and our jeans still fit and sometimes we go out at night 
I'm 29 years young today and I've lived it to the bone 
and I just wanted to send you this letter home 
 
Chorus 
 
It's harder to say that in those letters home 
Yeah its so hard to say that in those letters home