Postage Due Akkorde von
Jeff Wilkinson
Jeff Wilkinson

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Tonart: Gb major
Verse 1
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Christmas greeting
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s from Brighton
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Hit a red on the car
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With tiny white snowflakes
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surrounding her style
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Old Frank the Post man
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was making his rounds
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His big black galoshes
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left a trail throughout town
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This year was special and
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it smiled inside
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This was his last winter
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spending outside
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And with each house he came to
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he delivered by hand
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His own special greetings
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an d holiday thanks
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But someone took notice
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that his card had no stamps
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And he got on the phone
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to the head let ter man
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Your post man's de
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livering mail here for free
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If he doesn't pay postage,
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then why should we?
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Postage due, postage due
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Cried someone from Brighton
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with vengeance of scourge
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Oh, noth ing's free in
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this world anymore
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And I won't accept mail
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without stamps
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at my door
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Franklin the Blanche,
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you're now being tried
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But first -degree mail fraud
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melts my de sire
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Your service was spot less
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for twenty -n ine years
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For its dishonesty I
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won't shed a tear
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Old Franky nearly fell
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to the floor
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With a heart that was failing,
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he barely made the door
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The next day an ambulance
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found him near death
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Santa found Frank in a
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hospital bed
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Postage due, postage due
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I to William Smiley and
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his post office crew
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The man had a heart, but roses rose
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In sixty -eight dollars a male
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overdue
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Mrs. DePlant, she just concified
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Her husband been fired,
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his pen sion denied
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She wrote this whole story
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on a big sandwich board
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It paraded in front of
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the post office door
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Folks got excited,
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the news spread through town
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Old Frank's indictment
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was soon changed around
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But he never got a pen,
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he got a slap on the hand
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And the post office made him nick
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six hundred stamps
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Posted the two posters through
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Oh, look at those stamps,
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he turned Frankie for the new
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As he wears the uni form
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he once wore with pride
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He just waits for the day
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he can kiss it goodbye
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It's a shame that this world
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with it's measures and ways
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Won't find one to balance
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injustice and hate
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For it's never the message
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that matters no more
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It's the way that it's packaged
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when it knocks at your door.
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Postage due, postage due.
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Bribed someone from Brighton
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with the vengeance of schools.
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Oh, nothing is free
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in this world anymore.
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And it won't accept mail
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without stamps at my door. you

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