Delta Dawn
 

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Chorus

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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

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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.

 

(Repeat Chorus, then verse 2)

 

  verse 2

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In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn

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Prettiest woman you ever 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.