Ukeadoodle

Postmarked Birmingham [G] - Blackhawk

[Intro]
[G] [C] [D] [G]

Verse 1:
[G]I recognize the writing, on the [D]plain white envelo[G]pe.
[Em]I've wondered where she'd [C]wind up, [G]before she [D]called or [C]wrote.
[C]The answer's in a [G]circle, through the [D]word 'Love' on a [C]stamp,
[Am]Postmarked [D]Birming[G]ham

Verse 2:
[G]I'd have bet on California, 'cause her [D]sister's in [G]Bel Aire.
Or [Em]I could see [C]Seattle, with her [G]mom and [D]dad up [C]there.
[C]She never mentioned [G]Alabama, so [D]I don't under[C]stand.
[Am]Postmarked [D]Birming[G]ham

|[Chorus]
|[Em]A two-page letter [D]written on, [C]Ramada station[G]ary[D].
|[Em]Dated [D]April [C]twenty-two.
|[Am]She asked me not to hate her, said she's [C]sorry.
|But [Am]leavin's what she [C]felt she had to [D]do.[G]

Verse 3:
So the [G]day she left she made it, two [D]hundred miles [G]south.
Did she [Em]settle there, did she [C]mail this note
on [G]her way [D]out of [C]town.
What [C]chance is there to [G]find her, when the [D]only clue I [C]have is
[Am]Postmarked [D]Birming[G]ham

Verse 4:
Every [G]day down by the mailbox, standin' [D]on the curb I [G]check.
The [Em]upper right hand [C]corner, of every [G]piece of[D] mail I [C]get.
[C]Hopin' there's that certain [G]circle,
Through the [D]word 'Love' on a [C]stamp.

Outro:
[Am]Postmarked [D]Birming[G]ham,
[Am]Postmarked [D]Birming[G]ham.
[C] [D] [G]

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