(Don Sampson, Phil Vassar)

I recognize the writing

on the plain white envelope

I've wondered where she'd wind up

before she called or wrote

the answer's in a circle

with the word 'Love' on a stamp

Postmarked Birmingham

I'd have 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

Date 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

Date April twenty-two

She asked me not to hate her,

said she's sorry

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

of every piece of mail I get

Hopin' there's that certain circle

With the word 'Love' on a stamp

Postmarked Birmingham

Postmarked Birmingham

© 1997