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

 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