(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 through 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 
Dated Aprill 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 
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 
Through the word '
Love' on a stamp 
Postmarked 
Birmingham 
Postmarked 
Birmingham