(Don Sampson/Phil Vassar)
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I recognize the writing on the plain white envelope
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I've wondered where she'd wind up before she called or wrote
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The answer's in a circle through the word 'Love' on a stamp
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Postmarked Birmingham
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I'd have bet on California
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'Cause her sister's in Bel Aire
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Or I could see Seattle with her mom and dad up there
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She never mentioned Alabama so I don't understand
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Postmarked Birmingham
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A two-page letter written on
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Ramada stationary
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Dated Aprill twenty-two
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She asked me not to hate her,
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Said she's sorry
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But leavin's what she felt she had to do
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So the day she left she made it two hundred miles south
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Did she settle there, did she mail this note
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On her way out of town
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What chance is there to find her when the
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Only clue I have is
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Postmarked Birmingham
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A two-page letter written on
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Ramada stationary
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Dated April twenty-two
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She asked me not to hate her,
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Said she's sorry
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But leavin's what she felt she had to do
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Every day down by the mailbox
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Standin' on the curb I check
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The upper right-hand corner
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of every piece of mail I get
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Hopin' there's that certain circle
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Through the word 'Love' on a stamp
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Postmarked Birmingham
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Postmarked Birmingham
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Postmarked Birmingham
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