Lyrics to
The Letter

This version of The Letter was released by Joe Cocker in 1970.

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give me a ticket for an airoplane
i ain’t got time to take no fast train
oh ,the lonely days are gone
i’ll be right home
my baby she wrote me a letter

i don’t care how much money i got to spend
i won’t find my way home again
oh the lonely days are gone
i’ll be right home
my baby, she wrote me a letter

she wrote me a letter
said she couldn’t live with out me no more
listen to me mister don’t you ever xxxx
my baby once more
anyway

give me a ticket for an airoplane
i ain’t got time to take no fast train
oh ,the lonely days are gone
i’ll be back home
my baby she wrote me a letter

she wrote me a letter
said she couldn’t live with out me no more
listen to me mister don’t you ever xxxx
my baby once more
anyway

give me a ticket for an airoplane
i ain’t got time to take no fast train
oh ,the lonely days are gone
i’ll be back home
my baby she wrote me a letter

my baby wrote me a letter
my baby wrote me a letter
my baby wrote me a letter

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About Lyrics and The Letter by Joe Cocker

The lyrics for The Letter are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1970 song by Joe Cocker. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to The Letter have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for The Letter - Joe Cocker and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to The Letter by Joe Cocker in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Letter" means the words set to the music of The Letter, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joe Cocker. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Letter and the lyrics to The Letter are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joe Cocker who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Letter, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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