《The Letter Edged In Black》歌词

[00:00:00] The Letter Edged In Black - Hank Thompson/Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys

[00:00:07] I was standing by my window yesterday morning

[00:00:14] Without a thought of worry or of care

[00:00:20] When I saw the postman coming up the pathway

[00:00:27] With such a smiling face and jolly air

[00:00:34] He rang the doorbell and he whistled as he waited

[00:00:41] He smiled and said good morning to you jack

[00:00:48] But he little knew the sorrow that he brought me

[00:00:54] As he handed me a letter edged in black

[00:01:01] Then with trembling hands I took the letter from him

[00:01:08] I opened it and this is what it said

[00:01:15] Come home my boy your dear old father needs you

[00:01:22] Come home my boy your dear old mother's dead

[00:01:29] Those words the last your mother ever uttered

[00:01:35] Were tell my boy I want him to come back

[00:01:42] My eyes are blurred my poor old heart is breaking

[00:01:49] As I'm writing you this letter edged in black

[00:01:56] Then I bowed my head in silence and in sorrow

[00:02:03] The sunshine in my life it all had left

[00:02:09] Since the postman brought that letter yesterday morning

[00:02:16] Saying come home my boy your dear old mother's dead

[00:02:23] Those harsh words I'm sorry they were spoken

[00:02:31] You know I didn't mean them don't you jack

[00:02:37] The angels bear me witness I am asking

[00:02:44] Your forgiveness in this letter edged in black