Letter Home

Capo 1

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

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

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Letters home, I wrote them in my 
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dreams
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Asking if I'd known what I know 
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now would it even have changed a 
thing
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The hardest part of looking back 
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is the mistakes are all your own
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It's harder to say that in those 
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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