Johnny Cash - A Letter from Home Lyrics

Lyrics A Letter from Home - Johnny Cash



A cowpoke rode in one hot dusty day
To a store down in old San Antone
He stood at the window and I heard him say
Do I have a letter from home
The postmaster looked through the mail that had come
Then smilingly shook his grey head
The cowboke looked sadly a moment at him
And these are the words that he said
No letter from home, no letter from home
There's never a letter from home
(No message from mother and none of the other)
There's never a letter from home
That night he was shot on the wrong side of town
No more of those plains will he roam
I reached for my Bible and gave it to him
Said, "Son, here's your letter from home"
"If only I had just a little more time
To read it", the young cowpoke said
"I can't take it with me and I must go on"
Then he died with his letter unread
The letter from home, the letter from home
No time for the letter from home
(The cowboy laid dead with his letter unread)
Too late for the letter from home



Writer(s): MAYBELLE CARTER, DIXIE CARTER


Johnny Cash - The Complete Columbia Album Collection
Album The Complete Columbia Album Collection
date of release
04-12-2012

1 Amen
2 When He Reached Down His Hand for Me
3 Narration 5
4 Narration 4
5 Narration 3
6 Narration 2
7 Narration 1
8 Broken Hearted Lover
9 Worried Man Blues
10 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
11 When the Roses Bloom Again
12 My Clinch Mountain Home
13 Lonesome Valley
14 Keep on the Sunny Side
15 Gathering Flowers From the Hillside
16 I Ride an Old Paint
17 It Ain’t Me Babe
18 When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below)
19 Fast Boat to Sydney
20 It Ain’t Me Babe
21 He’ll Understand and Say Well Done
22 Tell Him I’m Gone
23 Why Do You Punish Me
24 Are All the Children In
25 The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Part 1
26 I’d Still Be There
27 Please Don’t Play Red River Valley
28 The Singing Star’s Queen
29 I’m Free From the Chain Gang Now
30 Don’t Think Twice, It's Alright
31 Mama, You’ve Been on My Mind
32 For Lovin’ Me
33 I’d Just Be Fool Enough (To Fall)
34 I’m Working on a Building
35 The Banks of the Ohio
36 The Wabash Cannonball
37 Brown Eyes
38 You Wild Colorado
39 Understand Your Man
40 The Vanishing Race
41 The Talking Leaves
42 Take Me Home
43 Still in Town
44 Nine Pound Hammer
45 Mean as Hell
46 Here Was a Man
47 Everybody Loves a Nut
48 White Girl
49 We Are the Shepherds
50 Wabash Cannonball
51 Roughneck
52 Lost on the Desert
53 Drums
54 Custer
55 Boa Constrictor
56 Apache Tears
57 Accidentally on Purpose
58 Joe Bean
59 Happy to Be With You
60 Cup of Coffee
61 In the Jailhouse Now
62 The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Part 2
63 It Was Jesus
64 ’Cause I Love You (instrumental)




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