Capo on the 1st fret F C G G7 C She Walked to the mailbox on that bright Summer's day F C F G C F Found a letter from her son in a war far away. C G G7 He spoke of the weather and good friends that he'd made C Said "I've been thinking about dad and the life that he had that's F G Am why I'm here today." G C G Am F And then at the end he said, "You are what I'm fighting for" G C It was the first of the letters from war. Chorus: F G G C G C And she started writing "You are good and your brave C F G What a father that you'll be someday, G C G C F G G7 C Make it home make it safe," She wrote every night as she prayed. F C G G7 C Then late in December a day she'll not forget F C F G C oh, her tears stained the paper with every word that she read G C G C It said "I was up on a hill I was out there alone G F When the shots all rang out and bombs were exploding G C G C That's when I saw him, he came back for me G C F G And though he was captured a man set me free F G Am G C And that man was your son he asked me to write to you G Am I told him I would, oh, I swore," F G C It was the last of the letters from war. Am And she prayed he was living C F Kept on believing and wrote every night just to say. Chorus: G C G C "You are good and your brave C F G What a father that you'll be someday, G C G C F G G7 C Make it home make it safe," and so she kept writing each day. F C G G7 C Then two years later, Autumn leaves all around F C F G C F A car pulls in the drive way, and she fell to the ground C G And out steps a Captain where her boy used to stand C G C G He said "Mom I'm following orders from all of your letters F G Am And I've come home again." G C Am G Am He ran in to hold her dropped all his bags on the floor F G C Holding all of her letters from war G C Bring him home G C Bring him home G C Bring him home