Lyrics A Letter From Home

A cowpoke rode in one hot dusty day
To a store down in old San Antone
He stood at the window and I heard him say
Do I have a letter from home

The postmaster looked through the mail that had come
Then smilingly shook his grey head
The cowboke looked sadly a moment at him
And these are the words that he said

No letter from home no letter from home
There's never a letter from home
(No message from mother and none from the other) There's never a letter from home

That night he was shot on the wrong side of town
No more of those plains will he roam
I reached for my Bible and gave it to him and said
Son here's your letter from home

If only I had just a little more time to read it the young cowpoke said
I can't take it with me and I must go on
Then he died with his letter unread

The letter from home the letter from home
No time for the letter from home
(The cowboy laid dead with his letter unread)
Too late for the letter from home