{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":752199,"song":"A Hymn For The Postal Service","artist":"Hefner","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11587954-a-hymn-for-the-postal-service-chords-by-hefner/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/752199?type=chord","rating":0.01129,"votes":0,"content":"A Hymn For The Postal Service\r\n\r\n\r\nIntro:  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]F#m[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  x4\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]F#m[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSobriety  breeds sincerity,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]F#m[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd Lydia Pond she is my gravity[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]F#m[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI don't know how she felt when she took that E,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut in the morning she shaking, she was twitching, she was jerking.[/tab]\r\n\r\nOn June the 5th she moved to Paris,\r\nShe could not stand the state of British politics,\r\nAnd I just can't convince her that I'm socialist,\r\nAnd every night I pray for mail in the morning.\r\n\r\nChorus:\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]           [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSweet Lydia Pond is doing it for me,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]  ([ch]F#m[/ch] [ch]G[/ch])  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd I want to sing a hymn for the postal service.[/tab]\r\nSinful and proud since I stopped sleeping around,\r\nI am so faithful now to Lydia's handwriting,\r\n\r\nMid 8:\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat makes me guess the circumstances under which she wrote it,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhy she used the f-word when she never, ever spoke it,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nShe pasted on a passport photo of herself in pigtails,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd underneath she'd written, \"Did my touch make you less lonely?\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nOh she promised me that we'd be creasing sheets,\r\nAnd that our bodies would be bruising, wrestling underneath,\r\nAnd I wanted to ask her how she cut her teeth,\r\nAnd why she let time slip through her skinny, skinny fingers.\r\n\r\n\r\nChorus x2, Mid 8, repeat last line.","plain_text":"A Hymn For The Postal Service\n\n\nIntro:  D  Em  F#m  G  x4\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn June the 5th she moved to Paris,\nShe could not stand the state of British politics,\nAnd I just can't convince her that I'm socialist,\nAnd every night I pray for mail in the morning.\n\nChorus:\n\n\nSinful and proud since I stopped sleeping around,\nI am so faithful now to Lydia's handwriting,\n\nMid 8:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOh she promised me that we'd be creasing sheets,\nAnd that our bodies would be bruising, wrestling underneath,\nAnd I wanted to ask her how she cut her teeth,\nAnd why she let time slip through her skinny, skinny fingers.\n\n\nChorus x2, Mid 8, repeat last line.","chords":["A","D","Em","F#m","G","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}