Green’s Dictionary of Slang

because of, as a result of; used in a variety of combs., e.g. from hunger, from grief.

1938		A.J. Liebling ‘The Jollity Building’ in Just Enough Liebling (2004) 252: Them apple-knockers just sat there from sorrow. [Ibid.] 254: The singers are from hunger [...] the performers are from hunger.
1954		‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Deadlier Than the Mail’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 135: The tips in this neighborhood are from hunger.
1957		H. Simmons Corner Boy 119: This kind of crap was from nowhere.
2000		Indep. on Sun. Culture 30 Apr. 1: The diifferences between life in LA and life in Kansas or Oklahoma – boy, it’s vast [...] I mean we were from horse and buggy weren’t we?