Mail Order Annie chords by Harry Chapin

Chords with lyrics

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My first contribution on here as I noticed this song was missing.
It's a beautiful song and straightforward to play albeit I use a capo at
Fret1 because it suits my voice better. I also find these better chords to
use than those Harry Chapin uses as he seems to play it open fret in D MajorD (you
can achieve this with by putting the capo at Fret 2). The only other change
is he changes key for the last verse but that doesn't work for me. Anyhow
here it is and I hope it works for you.

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Mail Order Annie (Harry Chapin)

Fret 1 or 2 (Chapin plays it in D MajorD)

Intro: C majorC E minorEm A minorAm FF G+G G7G7

  C majorC       E minorEm         A minorAm
At first I did not think it could be you
   FF                   G+G   G7G7
But you're the only one that got off the train
  E MajorE       E7E7       A minorAm      Am7Am7
So you must be my wife Miss Annie Halsey, yes, yes
FF            G+G       G7G7
I must be your husband. Yes, I'm Harry Crane


C majorC     E minorEm   FF        C majorC
Mail order Annie, never mind your cryin'
        E minorEm        FF   G+G  G7G7
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life
C majorC     E minorEm   FF         C majorC
Mail order Annie, can't you see I'm tryin'
  FF         C majorC
To tell you that I'm glad you're here
FF        G+G
You who are the woman
   FF    G+G   C majorC
Who's come to be my wife


  C majorC         E minorEm     A minorAm
You know you're not as pretty as I dreamed you'd be
   FF               G+G   G7G7
But then I'm not no handsome fancy Dan
  E MajorE         E7E7     A minorAm      Am7Am7
And out here looks are really not important, no, no
   FF                G+G       G7G7
It's what's inside a woman when she's up against the land

C majorC     E minorEm   FF        C majorC
Mail order Annie, never mind your cryin'
        E minorEm        FF   G+G  G7G7
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life
C majorC     E minorEm   FF         C majorC
Mail order Annie, can't you see I'm tryin'
  FF         C majorC
To tell you that I'm glad you're here
FF        G+G
You who are the woman
   FF    G+G   C majorC   E minorEm A minorAm
Who's come to be my wife


  A minorAm                Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
You know it's not no easy life you're entering
  A minorAm                     Bbmaj7Bbmaj7
The winter wind comes whistlin' through the cracks there in the sod
  A minorAm                FF
You know you'll never have too many neighbours
    A minorAm            Dm7Dm7     G+G G7G7
There's you babe, and there's me, and there's God


C majorC          E minorEm        A minorAm
You know I'm just a dirt man from the North Dakota plains
    FF                 G+G
You're one girl from the city who's been thrown out on her own
    E MajorE         E7E7       A minorAm    Am7Am7
And I'm standing here not sure of what to say to you
     FF            G+G       G7G7
'Ceptin' mail order Annie, let's you and me go home


C majorC     E minorEm   FF        C majorC
Mail order Annie, never mind your cryin'
        E minorEm        FF   G+G  G7G7
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life
C majorC     E minorEm   FF         C majorC
Mail order Annie, can't you see I'm tryin'
  FF         C majorC
To tell you that I'm glad you're here
FF        G+G
You who are the woman
   FF    G+G   C majorC
Who's come to be my wife


C majorC E minorEm A minorAm FF G+G G7G7