The Letter chords by Richard Walters

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: F

Difficulty: Novice

* = Single Strum

Intro:
C* F  Am  G
C* F  Am  G
C* F  Am  G  C F* C

F

Verse 1:
     Am    G    F
Sweat and blood and ink I've spent
  Am      G  F
But I've saved my tears
    Am    G    C  F* C   F
I won't spring a leak for them
    Am     G   F
Sharply dressed and ill at ease
    Am   G    F
Like a sucker keen to please
       Am    G   C F* C G
The man, the boss, the teacher


Pre-Chorus 1:
            C  F* C
I have tried to fall in love
    G
It did nothing more then leave me messed up
   Am  G   F
Some wild, bitter baby
    G
Now I'm crying for whoever


Chorus 1:
Dm   Am       G
Contentment would have made
C     G    Am
All things pass and change
      Dm   G
I wish you could
          C F* C  F
Have lived your life


Verse 2:
    Am   G       F
All the things you would have seen
    Am   G    F
Oh the man you could've been
    Am  G     C F* C  F
I would stand beside you
    Am    G    F
Now the hours and seconds crawl
    Am    G   F
Made me question it all again
    Am   G    C   F* C  G
Why my son, my boy, my light?


Pre-Chorus 2:
                C  F* C
You would have found someone to love
    G
Someone sweet and kind, a lot like you
   Am G  F
She'd be your everything
    G
And it could have saved you


Chorus 2:
Dm   Am       G
Contentment would have made
C     G    Am
All things pass and change
      Dm   G
I wish you could
          C F* C
Have lived your life


Chorus 3:
Dm   Am       G
Contentment would have made
C     G    Am
All things pass and change
      Dm   G
I wish you could
          C F* C
Have lived your life