The Letter - The Box Tops
Written by Wayne Carson Thompson 


[Verse 1]
            
Give me a tick

          
et for an aero

plane
             
Ain't got time

           
 to take a fas

t train
            
Lonely days ar

        
e gone, I'm a-

goin' home
             
Cause my baby 

              
just wrote me 

  
a letter


[Verse 2]
            
I don't care h

              
ow much money 

  
I gotta spend
             
Got to get bac

        
k to my baby a

gain
            
Lonely days ar

        
e gone, I'm a-

goin' home
             
My baby just w

          
rote me a lett

er


[Chorus]
             
Well she wrote

      
 me a letter
             
Said she could

             
n't live witho

   
ut me no more
             
Listen mister 


can't you see
            
I got to get b

            
ack to my baby

 once more

Anyway


[Verse 3]
            
Give me a tick

          
et for an aero

plane
             
Ain't got time

           
 to take a fas

t train
            
Lonely days ar

        
e gone, I'm a-

goin' home
             
Cause my baby 

              
just wrote me 

  
a letter


[Chorus]
             
Well she wrote

      
 me a letter
             
Said she could

             
n't live witho

   
ut me no more
             
Listen mister 


can't you see
            
I got to get b

            
ack to my baby

 once more

Anyway


[Verse 4]
            
Give me a tick

          
et for an aero

plane
             
Ain't got time

           
 to take a fas

t train
            
Lonely days ar

        
e gone, I'm a-

goin' home
             
Cause my baby 

              
just wrote me 

  
a letter
             
Cause my baby 

              
just wrote me 

  
a letter


(It's the same as the first chorus, but moved up a half step and with no lyrics)

[Outro]
      
            
      
            

(And then I like to end on F#)