Postmarked Birmingham

Recognize the writing on the plain white envelope

I've wondered where she'd wind up

Before she called or wrote

Answer's in a circle

Through the word love on a stamp

Postmarked Birmingham

I'd bet on California 'cause her sister's in Bel Aire

Or I could see Seattle with her mom

And dad up there

She never mentioned Alabama

So I don't understand

Postmarked Birmingham

A two-page letter written on

Ramada stationary dated April twenty-two

She asked me not to hate her said she's sorry

But leavin's what she felt she had to do

So the day she left

She made it two hundred miles south

Did she settle there did she mail

This note on her way out of town

What chance is there to find her

When the only clue I have

Is postmarked Birmingham

A two-page letter written on

Ramada stationary dated April twenty-two

She asked me not to hate her said she's sorry

Oh But leavin's what she felt she had to do

Every day down by the mailbox

Standin' on the curb I check

The upper right hand corner

Every piece of mail I get

Hopin' there's that certain circle

Through the word 'love' on a stamp

Postmarked Birmingham postmarked Birmingham