"The Letter" 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


[THE LETTER]
[Written by: Wayne Carson Thompson
Performed by: The Box Tops [1] -1967
Appears on: The Letter/Neon Rainbow-1967, Superhits-1969, Greatest
Hits-1982, The Ultimate Box Tops-1988, Supergroups Of The 60s (Various
Artists)-2005, Those Were the Days (Various Artists)-2007, et al.]

[1] Covered by: Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders-1965, Del Shannon-1968,
Bobby Darin-1968, The Arbors-1969, Al Green-1970, Joe Cocker-1970,
Dionne Warwick-1979, Bachman-Turner Overdrive-1993, The Beach
Boys-1998, Bob Marley and the Wailers-1998, Big Star-1999, Dynamo
5-1999, Eva Cassidy-2000, Chris Daughtry (American Idol audition,
Season 5 [2006] ), Carly Smithson & Michael Johns (American Idol, Duet
for finale of Season 7 [2008] ),