Bring Me a Letter from My Old Home Town

Homesickness was an issue for soldiers.  In this ballad writers Will R. Anderson and A. G. Delamater gives voice to an injured soldier tells his nurse that he longs for letters from home.  The chorus conveys this sentiment in a first-person voice:

Bring me a letter from my old hometown,

One with jokes from my old pal, Jim Brown.

Bring me a letter from that girl of mine,

Saying that she's longing for me all the time

Bring me a letter from my proud old dad,

Who knows that we are winning, and I'll bet he's glad.

But more than any other,

A line from my old mother;

Bring me a letter from my hometown.