The Letter Chords
The Letter by Richard Walters is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Ebm with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords C, F7+, Am, G and C/B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C F7+ Am G F7+
Am G F7+
Am G C F7+
Am G F7+
Sweat, and blood, and ink I've spent
Am G F7+
But I saved my tears
Am G C
I won't spring a leak for them
F7+ Am G F7+
Sharply dressed and ill at ease
Am G F7+
Like a sucker keen to please
Am G C
The man, the boss, the teacher
C/B C
I have tried to fall in love
C/B
It did nothing more than leave me messed up
Am G F7+
Some wild, bitter baby
G
Now I'm crying for whoever
F7+ C G
Contentment would have made
F7+ G Am
All things pass and change
G F7+ G
I wish you could
C F7+
Have lived your life
Am G F7+
All the things you would have seen
Am G F7+
Or the man you could have been
Am G F7+ C F7+
I would stand beside you
Am G F7+
Now the hours and seconds crawl
Am G F7+
Make me question it all again
Am G F7+ C
Why my son, my boy, my light?
C/B C
You'd have found someone to love
C/B
Someone sweet and kind, a lot like you
Am G F7+
She'd be your everything
G
And it could have saved you
F7+ C G
Contentment would have made
F7+ G Am
All things pass and change
G F7+ G
I wish you could
C F7+
Have lived your life
C G
Contentment would have made
F7+ G Am
All things pass and change
G F7+ G
I wish you could
C F7+ C
Have lived your life like this