Mail Order Annie

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

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

Oh, 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 standing here, not sure of what to say to you

'Cept in 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