At Mail Call Today - The Louvin Brothers

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At Mail Call by The Louvin Brothers
YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f8HCI78kdo
Composed by Gene Autry and Fred Rose
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group
Standard Tuning
128 bpm Waltz (3/4 timing)
Key: C


[Intro]
    


[Verse 1]
             
At mail call t

              
oday, your las

         
t letter came
             
I just stood t

              
here smiling t

              
ill they calle

     
d my name
             
As I read it o

              
ver the skies 

        
turned to gray
            
And tears to m

              
y eyes flowed 

             
at mail call t

oday


[Verse 2]
             
I can't unders

              
tand love, wha

              
t's happened t

  
o you.
             
The day that I

              
 sailed love y

              
ou said you'd 

   
be true
             
But now it's a

              
ll over what w

          
ord can I say
            
My poor heart 

              
was broken at 

          
mail call toda

y.


[Instrumental]
       
 


{Verse 3]
             
I slept in the

              
 foxhole amid 

         
shot and shell
             
I'm telling yo

              
u darling it's

              
 worse than al

  
l hell
             
I thought you 

              
would wait lov

              
e while I was 


away
            
But my castles

              
 tumbled at ma

        
il call today


[Verse 4]
             
I hope you'll 

              
be happy with 

         
somebody new
             
But always rem

              
ember my heart

           
 beats for you
              
Good luck and 

              
God bless you 

             
wherever you s

tray
            
The world for 

              
me ended at ma

        
il call today.

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