"The Letter"
                          The Box Tops

	Verse 1

Am				F
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Am7				 D7
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Am			    F	
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
   E7			        Am
My baby just-a wrote me a letter.


	Verse 2

Am					F
I don't care how much money I gotta spend
Am7			    D7
Got to get back to my baby again
Am			    F
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
   E7				  Am
My baby just-a wrote me a letter.


	Chorus

	   C		  G
Well she wrote me a letter
	   F		  C	     G
Said she couldn't-a live without me no more.
C		   G
Listen mister, can't you see
  F		   C		G
I got to get back to my baby once-a more.
E7
Anyway, yeah...


	Verse 3 [repeat of Verse 1]

Am				F
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Am7				 D7
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Am			    F	
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
   E7			        Am
My baby just-a wrote me a letter.


	Chorus

	   C		  G
Well she wrote me a letter
	   F		  C	     G
Said she couldn't-a live without me no more.
C		   G
Listen mister, can't you see
  F		   C		G
I got to get back to my baby once-a more.
E7
Anyway, yeah...







"The Letter" (cont'd)




	Verse 4 [repeat of Verse 1]

Am				F
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane
Am7				 D7
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Am			    F	
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
   E7			        Am
My baby just-a wrote me a letter.
	    E7			   Am
'Cause my baby just-a wrote me a letter.

	
	Coda  [Instrumental version of Chorus and fade]


--DON'T Modulate up one-half step:  ;-]

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