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Write A Letter Home by Jackie Greene







       Write A Letter Home 







Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 6th fret
Key: Gb

[Chords]
Primary hammer-ons happening over the chords:
C      x30013 / x32013
Fadd9  xx3013 / xx3213
G      320003 / 320013
 
[Intro]
|C  |G  |Fadd9  |C  C2/B  |Am7  |C  |Fadd9  |G  |G   |
 
[Verse 1]
C                      G
Cigarettes are burning down to my fingers
Fadd9                  C           C2/B
In my motel, where the smell still lingers
         Am7                 C
From the night before with a ten dollar whore
    Fadd9               G
Who didn't even know my name
    C                G
The TV says nothing, nothing to me
      Fadd9              C          C2/B
And I feel so low in the highest degree
       Am7                       C
Like a tree with no root, like a gun that don't shoot
       Fadd9            G
Like a dog outside on a chain
 
[Chorus]
            Fadd9            C
And there's no use for me to sit here an moan
G              Am7        G
Many a man has been more alone
    Fadd9                  C
And I might feel better if I write a letter
   G         Fadd9  C
If I write a letter home
 
[Verse 1]
      C                           G
Yeah, I heard the news bout' that old gang of mine
        Fadd9                        C         C2/B
They're all getting married, they're all doing fine
        Am7                    C
They're all getting older, and needin' a shoulder
       Fadd9        G
That's easy to lean on
C                  G
But as for me, I'm half way to Denver
    Fadd9               C            C2/B
How long has it been? I just can't remember
   Am7                            C
It all starts to fade, 'cause the life that I made
       Fadd9             G
Is the life that I dream on
 
[Chorus]
            Fadd9            C
And there's no use for me to sit here an moan
G              Am7        G
Many a man has been more alone
    Fadd9                  C
And I might feel better if I write a letter
   G         Fadd9  C
If I write a letter home
 
[Instrumental]
|C  |G  |Fadd9  |C  C2/B  |Am7  |C  |Fadd9  |G  |G  |
|Fadd9  |C  |G  |Am7  G  |Fadd9  |C  |G  |Fadd9  |C  |C  |C  |C  |
 
[Verse 3]
C                    G
 I can't help but to be who I am
            Fadd9          C            C2/B
Though I've let many women slip from my hands
  Am7              C
I let them all go, why I don't know
   Fadd9                    G
It just made me feel like a man
    C                          G
But what I know now, though it may be too late
    Fadd9                   C          C2/B
You got to love someone and let go the weight
    Am7                     C
You got to make do when you find love that's true
Fadd9           G
This now I understand
 
[Chorus]
            Fadd9            C
And there's no use for me to sit here an moan
G              Am7        G
Many a man has been more alone
Fadd9                  C
I might feel better if I write a letter
   G         Fadd9  C
If I write a letter home
   G         Fadd9  C
If I write a letter home








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