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The Letter

Mid-October 2024


The Letter

by Wayne Carson; changes by Debra Milligan


Give me a ticket for an airplane

I don’t have time to take a fast train

 

My lonely days are gone

I’m going home

 

My baby just wrote me

a letter.

 

I don’t care how much money

I gotta spend

 

I’ve got to get back to my baby,

again

 

My lonely days are gone



I’m going home

 

My baby just wrote me

a letter

 

He wrote me a letter

said he couldn’t live

without me

anymore

 

Listen, mister,

 

Can’t you see

I got to get back

to my baby


because

 

I don’t have time

to Amtrak it

 

and I ain’t gonna

backpack it

 

My lonely days are gone

He’s calling me home

 

with his love letter.

 

Give me a ticket for an

airplane

 

I don’t have time for any

fast train.


My lonely days are gone

 

He calls me home

to his arms

 

My baby

just told me

I’m his only one

 

when he wrote me,

 

My baby just wrote me,

 

He wrote me

 

The Letter.

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