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Delta Dawn

Words and music--Alex Harvey, Larry Collings, 1972
Tabulated by

 7-87  8      8     8   -8  7  
Delta Dawn, what's that flower 

 7    -6  6
your have on?

  6   -6 7  7  7 7   8    
Could it be a faded rose 

  8  -8     7  9
from days gone by?

9   -10 9  9    9   8 
And did I hear you say 

 8   8  8 -8 -8    7   7   -6 6
he was a-meeting you here today

6   7    7   7 -8   8  8   -8 -8   7
To take you to his mansion in the sky?

verse 1
 7     8 8   9   8   8  -8 7    6     7    7 -6 6
She's forty-one and her daddy still calls her baby.

 8   8   9     8 8     -8  7      7    7   -6 6
All the folks around Brownsville say she's crazy.

   9    9  -10   -10  -10 -10 -10  8 -8   9 -10   9
'Cause she walks downtown with a suitcase in her hand.

 8  8    9  8  8 -8  7   -6     7     7
Looking for a mysterious dark-haired man.

Delta Dawn etc to verse 2

In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn
Prettiest woman you ever laid eyes on.
Thne a man of low degree stood by her side
And promised her he'd take her for his bride.
Delta Dawn, etc. end