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Delta Dawn   (midi) 


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1. In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn,

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    prettiest woman you ever have laid eyes on.

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    Then a man of low degree stood by her side,

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    and promised her he'd take her for his bride.


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Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on,

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could it be a faded rose from days gone by?

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And did I hear you say, he was a-meetin' you here today,

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to take you to his mansion in the sk...y?


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2. 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.

 

+ CHORUS       + CHORUS ....

(orig = capo 3rd)     (Waylon Jennings)