Night Mail Chords by Public Service Broadcasting

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_ 830pm, weekdays and Sundays, the down postal [D] special leaves Houston for Glasgow, [G] Edinburgh
and Aberdeen. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [G] _ The postal special is a fast express, but it carries no passengers.
[F#m] Half
a million letters are [D] sorted, picked up or dropped during the night.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Bm] Letters for the
rich, letters for the poor, chocolates [E] for the young, eggs for the poor.
_ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[E] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] 800,000 letters
_ [G] every year. _ _
[E] Trains from [G] Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Stoke, Liverpool and Birmingham
bring [E] a thousand bags of mail to the post.
_ Mail crossing the [G] border, [B] bringing the check
and the post to the border.
_ Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, the [E] shop at the
corner and the girl next door.
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[A] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [E] _ The postal special leaves Houston for Glasgow, Edinburgh [G] and Aberdeen.
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, chocolates for the young, [Bm] eggs for the poor.
Letters for the rich, _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ letters for the poor, _ chocolates for [Bm] the young, eggs for the poor.
Letters for the rich, letters [G] _
for the poor, chocolates for the young, eggs for the poor.
Speaking noisily as she passes the silent miles, [Bm] with which drums and birds turn their
heads as [G] she approaches the stairs, approaches the breakfast couches, bringing shoes.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] Pulling up the seat of this lady, climbing the [G] drain as she gets closer, she is on by. _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] She is on by. _ _ _ _ _