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