I Met Her In Church
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
Ai
I view, from afar,
should I offer some assistance,
should it matter who you are,
we all get hurt by love,
and we all have a cross to bear,
but in the name of understanding, now
our problems should be shared
Confide in me,
Confide in me
I can keep a secret and throw away the key,
but sometimes to release it,
is to set our children free,
we all get hurt by love,
and we all have a cross to bear,
but in the name of understanding now,
our problems should be shared
Confide in me,
Confide in me,
Confide in m