Chords for John McCutcheon "Mail Myself To You" (Woody Guthrie) @ Eddie Owen Presents

Well, I [C] have _ _ _ _ _ two sons and three stepdaughters. _ _
_ [D] _ [C] _ And it has been really a long time
since any one of them wanted me to sing them to sleep at [Fm] night.
_ _ [C] _ So it had been years since I had sung or even thought
of this song.
So it was quite a surprise about 10 years ago
when the US Postal Service called me
and wanted to use my recording of this old Woody Guthrie
[Fm] song in [C] their Christmas _ television commercials.
_ _ _ _ And after I hung up the phone, I remember thinking, man,
this is perfect in the age of texting and _ _ tweeting _ _
and twittering and whatever it is. _
Woody Guthrie and I are teaming up to promote _ letter writing.
_ _ It's kind of the story of my career.
_ _ _ Well, the truth is once the baseball season is over,
I don't watch television at all.
So even though this commercial was fairly ubiquitous,
I never actually saw it.
One of the very first people who ever saw it
was my youngest son, who called me one November night,
I remember, from his [D] dorm room [C] at Chapel Hill.
And he says, dad, _ _ I think I just heard you
on a television commercial. _
_ I said, _ wait a minute. _
I am your father.
_ What do you mean you think you heard me on a television commercial?
He says, well, I don't know.
I'm not certain.
I was across the hall last night.
We were watching sports.
And of course, across the hall, their dad pays for cable.
_ _ And they broke for this commercial.
And all of a sudden, I heard this hammered dulcimer music.
And I'm sitting there thinking, come on.
What are the odds?
_ And I said, and?
_ _ _ He says, I don't know.
_ I said, what do you mean you don't know?
He said, _ I _ fell asleep.
_ _ _ _ I'm going to wrap myself in paper.
I'm going to dab myself with glue.
[Dm] Stick some stamps on the top of my [G] head.
I'm going to mail myself.
[C] _
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I'm going to tie me in a little red string.
I'm going to tie blue [G] bands, [Bb] too.
Climb up into my [G] mailbox.
I'm going to mail myself.
[C] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _
[B] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [C] Oh, when you find me in your mailbox, cut the string
and let me out.
[Dm] Wash the glue off of my [G] fingers.
Stick some bubble gum in my mouth.
_ [C] _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ [C] _ _ _
Take me out of my wrapping paper.
Wash the stamps off of my head.
[B] Pour me full of some ice cream [G] soda.
Tuck me into a nice [C] warm bed.
I'm going to wrap myself in paper.
I'm going to dab myself with glue.
[F] Stick some stamps on the top of my [G] head.
I'm going to mail myself. _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ Woody Guthrie.