THE LETTER

The Box Tops

- written by Wayne Carson Thompson

- #1 hit for The Box Tops in 1967

- covered by The Arbors in 1969 (#20) and recorded live by Joe Cocker

with Leon Russell and The Shelter People (#7) in 1970.

- these lyrics are as recorded by The Box Tops



Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane

Ain't got time to take a fast train

Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home

My baby, just-a wrote me a letter



I don't care how much money I gotta spend

Got to get back to baby again

Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home

My baby, just-a wrote me a letter



Well, she wrote me a letter

Said she couldn't live without me no more

Listen mister, can't you see I got to get back

To my baby once-a more

Anyway, yeah!



Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane

Ain't got time to take a fast train

Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home

My baby, just-a wrote me a letter



Well, she wrote me a letter

Said she couldn't live without me no more

Listen mister, can't you see I got to get back

To my baby once-a more

Anyway, yeah!



Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane

Ain't got time to take a fast train

Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home

My baby, just-a wrote me a letter

My baby, just-a wrote me a letter