"A Letter From Home" - Johnny Cash
Track 10 Of 20 On The Album "Johnny Cash Sings The Ballads Of The True West" (1965)
Track 4 Of 12 On The Album "Mean As Hell!" (1966)
Intro
Verse 1
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 Cowpoke Looked Sadly A Moment At Him
And These Are The Words That He Said
Chorus
"No Letter From Home, No Letter From Home
There's Never A Letter From Home
(No Message From Mother, Or None Of The Others)
There's Never A Letter From Home"
Instrumental Break
Verse 2
That Night He Was Shot On The Wrong Side Of Town
No More On Those Plains Will He Roam
I Reached For My Bible And Gave It To Him
And 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
Chorus
The Letter From Home, The Letter From Home
No Time For The Letter From Home
(The Cowboy Lay Dead With His Letter Unread)
Too Late For The Letter From Home
Outro
