i listened to the youtube video, and this is what i came up with. the
instrumental breaks are mostly just a guess(:
when i hit "preview tab" i cant seem to fix this so the chords line up with the
right words, sorry :\
but if you know the song, its not tough to figure out! i apologize for the inconvenience >.<
enjoy!
~kenzigirl
Letters From War – Mark Schultz
Capo 1
Verse1
C F C
She walked to the mailbox
G C
On that bright summer's day
F C
Found a letter from her son
F G C
In a war far away.
F C
He spoke of the weather
G C
And good friends that he'd made
C G
Said, "I've been thinking about dad
C G
And the life that he had,
F G Am
That’s why I'm here today."
G C
And then at the end he said,
G Am F
"You are what I'm fighting for"
Am G C
It was the first of his letters from war.
C G, C G, C G
Chorus:
F G
And she started writing,
G C G C
"You’re good and you’re brave
F C G
What a father that you'll be someday,
G C G C
Make it home make it safe."
F G
She wrote every night as she prayed.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/mark_schultz/letters_from_war_crd_ver_3.html ]
Verse2
C F C
Then late in December,
G C
A day she'll not forget,
F C
Oh, her tears stained the paper
F G C
With every word that she read.
G C
It said, "I was up on a hill
G C
I was out there alone
G C
When the shots all rang out
F
And bombs were exploding.
G C
That's when I saw him,
G C
He came back for me.
G C
And though he was captured,
F G
A man set me free.
F G Am
And that man was your son.
G C
He asked me to write to you
G Am F
I told him I would, oh, I swore."
Am G C
It was the last of the letters from war.
C G C G
Bridge
Am
And she prayed he was living
C
Kept on believing
F G
And wrote every night just to say,
Chorus
G C G C
"You’re good and you’re brave
F C G
What a father that you'll be someday.
G C G C
Make it home make it safe."
F G
And so she kept writing each day.
Verse3
C F C
Then two years later,
G C
Autumn leaves all around
F C
A car pulled in the driveway,
F G C
And she fell to the ground
F C
And out stepped a Captain
G C
Where her boy used to stand
C G
He said, "Mom I'm following orders
C G
From all of your letters
F G Am
And I've come home again."
G C
He ran in to hold her
G Am F
Dropped all his bags on the floor
Am G C
Holding all of her letters from war
C G, C G, F C, F G
C G, C G, F C, F G
Make it home
C G, C G, F C, F G
Make it home
C G, C G, F C, F G, C
Make it home
