Your Old Love Letters

Jim Reeves

Written by Johnny Bond

Key of C · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

C
Today I burned your old love letters
  G7                        C
I burned them gently one by one

Verse 2

Before I'd light the flame I'd read it
   G7                          C
To try and find the wrong I've done

Verse 3

    F                          C
The first you wrote me was the sweetest
                               G7
The last one broke my heart in two
                            C
Our love is there among the embers
       G7                            C
Of the ashes of your letters tied in blue

Verse 4

Today I burned your old love letters
  G7                        C
I watched our love go up in smoke

Verse 5

I lived again those precious memories
  G7                         C
I heard each tender word you spoke

Verse 6

    F                          C
The first you wrote me was the sweetest
                               G7
The last one said that we were through
                            C
Our love is there among the embers
       G7                            C
Of the ashes of your letters tied in blue