Mail Order Annie Lyrics

The song Mail Order Annie is performed by Harry Chapin in the album named The Gold Medal Collection in the year 1990 .



At first I did not think it could be you
But you're the only one that got off the train
So, you must be my wife, Miss. Annie Halsey
I must be your husband, yes I'm Harry Crane

Mail Order Annie, never mind your crying
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life
Mail Order Annie, can't you see I'm trying
To tell you that I'm glad you're here
You are the woman who's come to be my wife

You know you're not as pretty as I dreamed you'd be
But then I'm not no handsome fancy Dan
And out here looks are really not important, no no
It's what's inside a woman, when she's up against the land

Mail Order Annie, never mind your crying
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life
Mail Order Annie, can't you see I'm trying
To tell you that I'm glad you're here
You are the woman who's come to be my wife

You know it's not no easy life you're entering
The winter wind comes whistling through the cracks there in the sod
You know you'll never have too many neighbors
There's you babe, and there's me, and there's God

You know I'm just a dirty man from the North Dakota plains
You're one girl from the city who's been thrown out on her own
And I'm standing here not sure of what to say to you
'Cepting Mail Order Annie, lets you and me go home

Mail Order Annie, never mind your crying
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life
Mail Order Annie, can't you see I'm trying
To tell you that I'm glad you're here
You are the woman who's come to be my wife




Harry Chapin - The Gold Medal Collection

Oct 1990

  1. Taxi
  2. Sunday Morning Sunshine
  3. Old College Avenue
  4. Dirty Old Man
  5. Tangled Up Puppet
  6. Dancing Boy
  7. Thanksgiving Hunger Drives
  8. Flowers Are Red
  9. Winter Song
  10. Story Of A Life
  11. Commitment & Pete Seeger
  12. There Was Only One Choice
  13. Mail Order Annie
  14. Performing
  15. W*O*L*D*
  16. Corey's Coming
  17. A Child Is Born
  18. Sniper
  19. Calluses
  20. The Rock
  21. Danceband On The Titanic
  22. I Wonder What Would Happen To This World
  23. Sequel
  24. My Grandfather
  25. Remember When The Music (Reprise)


Mail Order Annie