Blackhawk - Postmarked Birmingham guitar chord

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Date: 12/19/97; 9:56:35 AM

From: Jack Kelsey

Subject: submittal

Postmarked Birmingham (Blackhawk)

Capo 3rd. fret

Intro: ( C7 F G C )??

(I'm working on a chart that will better show how to pick out the intro.,

instrumental between verses, and the ending. I'll send this separately)

C G C

I recognize the writing, on the plain white envelope.

Am F C G F

I've wondered where she'd wind up, before she called or wrote.

F C G F

The answer's in a circle, through the word 'Love' on a stamp,

Dm G C

Postmarked Birmingham

C G C

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

Am F C G F

Or I could see Seattle, with her mom and dad up there.

F C G F

She never mentioned Alabama, so I don't understand.

Dm G C

Postmarked Birmingham

Chorus:

Am G F C G

A two-page letter written on, Ramada stationary.

Am G F

Dated April twenty-two.

Dm F

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

Dm F G ? ?

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

C G C

So the day she left she made it, two hundred miles south.

Am F

Did she settle there, did she mail this note

C G F

on her way out of town.

F C G F

What chance is there to find her, when the only clue I have is

Dm G C

Postmarked Birmingham

Repeat Chorus

C G C

Every day down by the mailbox, standin' on the curb I check.

Am F C G F

The upper right hand corner, of every piece of mail I get.

F C

Hopin' there's that certain circle,

G F

Through the word 'Love' on a stamp.

Dm G C

Postmarked Birmingham,

Dm G C7 F G C

Postmarked Birmingham.

Jack M. Kelsey

Email: jkelsey@albemarle.org