Tom Paxton - The Mail Will Go Through lyrics

Spoken "I frequently wish that the government would ease up a little bit in providing me with topics for songs. Do you ever get that feeling yourself? You've just about got your desk cleared off and you look up and here comes somebody with two armloads of work for you. Well I get that feeling watching these guys give their press conferences. I'm sitting there saying "Aw, no. 18 more songs to write". For example, it was about this time last year when the United States Post Office announced their plans to deliver the mail after the nuclear holocaust. And I said, "Aw, no. Another song to write." As it happens, I have a brother in law who's actually quite highly placed in the postal department there in Washington, and we had Thanksgiving dinner down at their house in Virginia, and at one point I called him aside, I said, "Bill. I'm gonna have to write a song about that." And he's known me a long time and he'd kinda halfway been expecting that, and uh, all he asked was that I try to be kind. And so I tried. And I failed." Yes sir, modern life is scary It's sure tough on me and thee It's hard to count on anything this days When when things get too hairy with their insecurities We can count on the Post Office, Lord we pray They say we'll all be cinders in the end But there's one bright hope on which we may depend (may depend) They can go and drop the big one But the mail will go through That's a promise to you That the mail will go through There'll be no-one left to read it but the mail will go through What a wonderful change that will be The announcement was so welcome It allayed our deepest fears It was met with heartfelt cheers As we sank a couple beers We can write too all our loved ones saying "We're no longer here" And the mail will go through Help me sing it They can go and drop the big one But the mail will go through That's a promise to you That the mail will go through There'll be no-one left to read it but the mail will go through What a wonderful change that will be When the final war is over And it's been a great success We've been powdered more or less Comes the mailman express He'll come sifting through the ashes 'til he finds the right address And the mail will go through They can go and drop the big one But the mail will go through That's a promise to you That the mail will go through There'll be no-one left to read it but the mail will go through What a wonderful change that will be So the future can't be all bad There's a lot you gotta like If they vaporized your bike You can take a little hike And get your letter in the chute between the first and second strike And the mail will go through They can go and drop the big one But the mail will go through That's a promise to you That the mail will go through There'll be no-one left to read it but the mail will go through What a wonderful change that will be What a wonderful change that will be