Helen Reddy Delta Dawn Lyrics

Delta Dawn Lyrics

Delta Dawn

-Artist: Helen Reddy from "Helen Reddy's Greatest Hits": EMI
ST 11467
-peak Billboard position # 1 for 1 week in 1973
-Words and Music
by Alex Harvey and Larry Collins


CHORUS
Delta Dawn, what's that
flower you have on?
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
And did I
hear you say he was a-meetin' you here today
To take you to his mansion in
the sky-eye?

She's forty-one and her daddy still calls 'er "baby"
All
the folks 'round Brownsville say she's crazy
'cause she walks downtown with
her suitcase in her hand
Lookin' for a mysterious dark-haired man

In
her younger days they called her Delta Dawn
Prettiest woman you ever laid
eyes on
Then a man of low degree stood by her side
Promised her he'd take
her for his bride

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Transcribed
by Robin Hood

These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording
mentioned above
and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other
recordings, sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.