At first
I did not think it could be you.
But you're the only one that
got off the train.
So you must be my wife
Miss Annie Halsey
Yes, I guess I am your husband,
Hello I'm Harry Crane.
Mail Order Annie,
never mind your crying.
Your tears are sweet rain
in my empty life.
Mail Order Annie,
can't you see I'm trying
To tell you that I'm glad you're here,
You are the woman who's come to be my
wife.
You know you're not as pretty
as I dreamed you'd be,
But then I'm not no handsome
fancy Dan.
And out here looks are really
not important.
It's what's inside a woman
when she's up against the land.
Mail Order Annie,
never mind your crying.
Your tears are sweet rain
in my empty life.
Mail Order An nie,
can't you see I'm trying
To tell you that I'm glad you're here,
You are the woman who's come
to be my wife.
You know it's not no easy
life you're entering.
The winter wind comes whistling through
the cracks there in the sod.
You know you'll never have
too many neighbors.
There's you Girl, and there's me,
and there's God.
You know I'm just a dirty man from
the North Dakota plains.
You're one girl from the city
who's been thrown out on her own.
I'm standing here not sure of
what to say to you
'Cepting Mail Order Annie,
lets you and me go home.
Mail Order Annie,
never mind your crying.
Your tears are sweet rain
in my empty life.
Mail Order Annie,
can't you see I'm trying
To tell you that I'm glad you're here,
You are the woman who's come to be my wife.