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
1 Narration 2
2 Narration 1
3 I Ride an Old Paint
4 It Ain’t Me Babe
5 When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below)
6 He’ll Understand and Say Well Done
7 Tell Him I’m Gone
8 Why Do You Punish Me
9 Are All the Children In
10 The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Part 1
11 I’d Still Be There
12 Please Don’t Play Red River Valley
13 The Singing Star’s Queen
14 It Ain’t Me Babe
15 Fast Boat to Sydney
16 Gathering Flowers From the Hillside
17 Keep on the Sunny Side
18 Lonesome Valley
19 My Clinch Mountain Home
20 When the Roses Bloom Again
21 Will the Circle Be Unbroken
22 Worried Man Blues
23 Broken Hearted Lover
24 Narration 3
25 Narration 4
26 Narration 5
27 When He Reached Down His Hand for Me
28 Amen
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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