Dear_____  ma-ma:    I hope that you're  all right;
I   can  hear  the thunder rumblin'  across the southern sky  to-night. 
Kids  are  sleep-in',  the  T.    V.'s    on__ and I'm  sittin  here   alone,
and   I   just  thought  I'd  write___   this    let-ter   home.

I was the one you were counting on,  the family's high school star, 
when Jimmy and me  ran off  that   summer,  must have broken you and daddy's heart;
yeah, we   didn't need   nobody's help,   we   were   eight  - teen   years  and grown, 
and    I   never    sent   a    sing  - gle   let   -  ter   home.

Let - ters  home,_____    I   wrote them   in     my   dreams;
ask  me  if___I'd  known__ what  I   know  now  _  would it   e - ven have changed  a thing; 
the  hard-est part  of   look - ing back  is the  mis-takes   are all your   own,
it's  harder to say___   that        in   those   let - ters  home. 

Jim-my  found  some - bo  - dy  else, he told me that on New Year's   day;
he said  he   felt  like a  man with  her__ and I  watched them drive  a-way;
the  child-ren  and rent,  there was no  time  for tears,  just time to carry on, 
I  didn't know  how  to   tell  you so there was  no   let - ter  home.

Let - ters  home,_____    I   wrote them   in     my   dreams;
ask  me  if___I'd  known__ what  I   know  now  _  would it   e - ven have changed  a thing; 
the  hard-est  part  of   look - ing back  is the  mis-takes   are all your   own,
you just can't  hide  them     in  those    let- ters   home. 

Workin'  the plains_  with some oth - er  girls_ and we're all doin'  all-right,
we  raise our kids__  and the   jeans   still fit__ and some-times we go out_ at night;
I'm  twenty   nine __ years  young   to-day____ and I've lived  them  to the   bone, 
and     I   just   wanted   to send_    you          this    let-ter      home.

Let - ters  home,_____    I   wrote them   in     my   dreams;
ask  me  if___I'd  known__ what  I   know  now  _  would it   e - ven have changed  a thing; 
the  hard-est part  of   look - ing back  is the  mis-takes   are all your   own,
it's  harder to say___   that        in   those   let - ters  home.
Yeah,  it's  so   hard   to say___   that        in   those   let - ters  home.  

Circa 1987
Words and Music by Wendy Waldman
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