Remember letters, kids? I used to spend my summers writing to faraway pen-pals. Still friends with some of them all these years later. From 1970, a sweet and quirky ode to the post office, “I Am A Letter“, which tells the tale of the journey of a letter through the US Postal Service. And a very detailed journey it is! Some of the lines and the ways they’re forced to rhyme just kill me. But, hey, “This is information that’s important to know“! Lots of thanks to our own First Class Male, @Sesame Maniac, for helping me finally knock this request off my To-Do List. Classic earworm.
TECH NOTES: Not perfect, the video’s a tad choppy, for lack of a better term. Difficult to convert the episode when it comes from certain streaming networks (don’t want to tick them off by naming them), so we’ll just have to cross our fingers when it comes to any future clips from these eps.
PLAYLIST:
Shameless Amazon Plugs!
Pets Forever Postage Stamps (Book of 20)
Dragons Forever Postage Stamps (Sheet of 16)
Sesame Street Forever Postage Stamps (Sheet of 16)
(First)
LYRICS
Who do you think I am? The answer’s not hard
I’m a letter in an envelope, a package or card
How do I come to you and how do I go?
Come on and follow along, let’s see if you know
We’re waiting in the mailbox, night and day
We’re waiting for the mail truck to take us away
(Humming and scatting as the mailman empties the mailbox)
Now we’re in the mail truck and we’re on our way
To the post office, all night and all day
The post office, the post office, the post office!
Out of the mailbag, we’re ready to ride
Onto a moving belt, we slip and we slide
And then they seperate us, the big from the small
Along the moving belt we go, and down we fall
Who do you think I am? The answer’s not hard
I’m a letter in an envelope, a package or card
The post office, the post office, the post office!
Riding up the belt then we’re on the move
Up and over and down we go, oh into the groove
And now we get to postmark, one at a time
Which tells the place we started from and at what time
The post office, the post office, the post office!
And, what do ya think happens when we get our mark?
Yeah, they line us up together and then they start
To read our addresses, the places we will go
This is information that’s important to know
The post office, the post office, the post office!
They put us into piles, up above and below
With letters that have to go ... the same place we go
They put us into mailbags, full and strong
Now, we’re ready to take a trip, short or long
Day and night, the mail rides on jet-powered planes
All across America, through wind, snow, or rain
(Do-do-dee-do ...)
We go to any post offices across the land
Where the mailman takes us and sorts us by hand
They pack us into leather bags, just so
The mailman delivers us, let’s see where we go
The mailman, the mailman, the mailman!
We come to your house, the answer’s not hard
I’m a letter in an envelope, a package or card
The mailman, the mailman, the mailman!
Now you know just who I am, now you know me better
You’ve seen where I go, now say my name
I’m a letter!
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