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