Delta Dawn

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

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Delta Dawn, what's that flower 

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your have on?

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Could it be a faded rose 

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from days gone by?

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And did I hear you say 

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he was a-meeting you here today

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To take you to his mansion in the sky?

verse 1
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She's forty-one and her daddy still calls her baby.

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All the folks around Brownsville say she's crazy.

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'Cause she walks downtown with a suitcase in her hand.

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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

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