Tear Stained Letter - Johnny Cash - Rough Acoustic Guitar

Song: Tear Stained Letter
Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
Copyright © American Recordings/Universal

"Tear Stained Letter" was previously recorded by Cash for his 1972 album A Thing Called Love.

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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I'm going to write a tear stained letter
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I'm going to mail it straight to you
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I'm going to bring back to your mind
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What you said about always being true
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About our secret hiding places
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Being daily satisfied
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I can see you sitting and reading it
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While you hang, you head and cry
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I just hope you're not so sad
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You're going to go down suicide
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I'm going to write a tear stained letter
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Put it special delivery
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Because it's gonna be full of stuff
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That's only known to you and me
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About how every time I get turned on
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You turn me off and bring me down
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It'll be about the darkest news
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That ever did arrive in your hometown
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It'll be about the saddest thing
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Your mailman ever did bring around
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I'm going to write a tear stained letter
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I'm going to tell you one more time
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That you still could reconsider
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And come back to being mine
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And if you think about what I'm saying
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It'd be hard to refuse
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Just be sure you think a long time
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On the answer that you choose
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It will be a most important piece
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Of personal, private news
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I'm going to write a tear stained letter
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Mark it "Personal Private News"
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And I hope you'll keep it to yourself
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And don't go around crying the blues
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Giving off a bad impression
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As to what went really wrong
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When what it was, was that suddenly
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The music was all gone
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And this man and this woman got cut off
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In the middle of our song
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I'm going to write a tear stained letter
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I'm going to put it to a tune
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So I'll be sending with it
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A sweet melody for you
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And not some red-hot, upbeat zinger
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That'll set your body on fire
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But a hunk of love included
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Meant to take you a little higher
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And to settle on your sweet, sweet mind
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At night when you retire

[Outro]
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I'm going to write a tear stained letter

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