Tonart: D major•
Verse 1
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"I frequently wish that the government
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would ease up a little bit in
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providing me with topics for songs.
Do you ever get that feeling yourself?
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You've just about got your desk cleared
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off and you look up and here
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comes somebody with two armloads
of work for you.
Well I get that feeling watching these guys
give their press
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conferences. I'm sitting
there saying "Aw, no.
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18 more songs to write". For example,
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it was about this time last year when the United
States Post Office
announced their plans to deliver
the mail after the nuclear holocaust.
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And I said, "Aw,
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no. Another song to write." As it happens,
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I have a brother in law who's actually
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quite highly placed in the
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postal department there in Washington,
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and we had Thanksgiving dinner down at their house in Virginia,
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and at one point I called him aside,
I said, "Bill.
I'm gonna have to write a song
about that.
" And he's known me a long time
and he'd kinda halfway been expecting
that, and uh,
all he asked was that I try to be
kind. And so I tried. And I failed."
Verse 2
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Yes sir, modern life is scary
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It's sure tough on me and thee
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It's hard to count on anything
When when things get too
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hairy with their insecurities
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Post Office, Lord we pray
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They say we'll all be cinders in the
Verse 3
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end
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But there's one bright hope on which
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we may depend (may depend)
Verse 4
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They can go and drop the big one
But the mail will go through
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That's a promise to you
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That the mail will go through
There'll be no one left to read
it but the mail will go through
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What a wonderful change
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that will be
Verse 5
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The announcement was so welcome
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It allayed our deepest fears
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It was met with heartfelt cheers
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As we sank a couple beers
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We can write too all our loved ones saying
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And the mail will go through
Help me sing it
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They can go and drop the big one But the
Verse 6
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mail will go through
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That's a promise to you
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That the mail will go through
There'll be no one left to read
it but the mail will go through
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What a wonderful change
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that will be
Verse 7
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When the final war is over
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And it's been a great success
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We've been powdered more or less
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Comes the mailman express
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He'll come sifting through the ashes
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till he finds the right address
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And the mail will go through
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They can go and drop the big one But the
Verse 8
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mail will go through
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That's a promise to you
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That the mail will go through
There'll be no one left to read
it but the mail will go through
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What a wonderful change that will be
Verse 9
all bad
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There's a lot you gotta like
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If they vaporized your bike
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You can take a little hike
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And get your letter in the chute between
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the first and second strike
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And the mail will go through
Verse 10
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They can go and drop the big one
But the mail will go through
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That's a promise to you
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That the mail will go through
There'll be no one left to read
it but the mail will go through
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What a wonderful change
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Bm
that will be
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What a wonderful change that will be
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