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Delta Dawn Lyrics

Artist: Helen Reddy

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

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Comments/Interpretations

by ZENA SMITH on 8/25/2008 11:10am
i love her songs and just want to sing the lyrics of each one of her music

by MAGDALENA DELTA on 12/28/2008 11:55pm
TRULY A PROPHETIC SONG MEANT FOR , the ROSE" of the "TRINITY"!
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LOVE IT!
~PEACE~

by MAGDALENA DELTA on 12/28/2008 11:57pm
TRULY A PROPHETIC SONG MEANT FOR , the ROSE" of the "TRINITY"!
PACKED FULL OF SYMBOLISM AND CLUES!..TEEHEE...DADS!..LOL!
READY QUEEN!
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LOVE IT!
~PEACE~

by sue on 4/26/2009 8:28pm
I love this song so much I'm having it played at my funeral. My family knows that if they don't, I will come back and haunt them for the rest of their lives.

by Leo Mc Donald on 5/21/2011 11:28am
Just great

by Asajj on 7/20/2011 9:41pm
This song Rox

by Mary Parry on 1/14/2012 4:09am
Ive knowed that song since Tanya Tucker sang it Im 48 this month like helen reddys song Angie Baby to this day i lisen to alot of 70s music and still play tanya atleast once a day or so i have lots of them love you both

by unknown on 6/28/2012 9:37pm
I first found this song when Isaw Monica sing it o F

by unknown on 6/28/2012 9:37pm
I first found this song when I saw Monica sing it o FRIENDS I love that episode

by MT on 9/17/2012 10:20am
I LOVE THE SONG FROM YEARS AGO, SING TO MY GRANDDAUGTER WHO IS IN HER 20'S

by kiron ghatowl on 5/27/2017 7:18am
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