Jackie Greene - Write A Letter Home

      [Intro]
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Am7  C  F  G

[Verse 1]
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Cigarettes are burning down to my fingers
F                      C           G/B
In my motel, where the smell still lingers
         Am                  C
From the night before with a ten dollar whore
    F                   G
Who didn't even know my name
    C                G
The TV says nothing, nothing to me
      F                  C          G/B
And I feel so low in the highest degree
       Am                        C
Like a tree with no root, like a gun that don't shoot
       F                G
Like a dog outside on a chain

[Chorus]
            F                C
And there's no use for me to sit here an moan
G              Am         G
Many a man has been more alone
    F                      C
And I might feel better if I write a letter
   G         F      C
If I write a letter home

[Verse 1]
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Yeah, I heard the news bout' that old gang of mine
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They're all getting married, they're all doing fine
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They're all getting older, and needin' a shoulder
       F            G
That's easy to lean on
C                  G
But as for me, I'm half way to Denver
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How long has it been? I just can't remember
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It all starts to fade, 'cause the life that I made
       F                 G
Is the life that I dream on.

[Chorus]
            F                C
And there's no use for me to sit here an moan
G              Am         G
Many a man has been more alone
    F                      C
And I might feel better if I write a letter
   G         F      C
If I write a letter home

[Instrumental]
C  G  F  C  G/B
Am7   C  F  G
F  C  G  Am  G
F  C  G  F  C

[Verse 3]
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 Now, I can't help but to be who I am
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Though I've let many women slip from my hands
  Am               C
I let them all go, why I don't know
   F                        G
It just made me feel like a man
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But what I know now, though it may be too late
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You got to love someone and let go the weight
    Am                      C
You got to make do when you find love that's true
F               G
This now I understand

[Chorus]
            F                C
And there's no use for me to sit here an moan
G              Am         G
Many a man has been more alone
    F                      C
And I might feel better if I write a letter
   G         F      C
If I write a letter home
   G         F      C
If I write a letter home