Harry Chapin - Mail Order Annie lyrics

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, yeah, yeah
I must be your husband yes, I'm Harry Crane

Mail order Annie, never mind your cryin'
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life
Mail order Annie, can't you see I'm tryin'
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 cryin'
Your tears are sweet rain in my empty life
Mail order Annie, can't you see I'm tryin'
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 enterin'
The winter wind comes whistlin'
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 standin' here not sure of
What to say to you 'Ceptin' Mail order Annie
Let's you and me go home

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