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The Letter (That Johnny Walker Read)

from The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel - Since 1970 by Asleep at the Wheel

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Johnny Walker sat at a table at a bar mindin’ his own affairs
Drinkin’ his name sake over the rocks
He was drunk, too drunk to care
When a girl from the bar Walked up beside him
and this is what she said
she said A woman came by with a letter for you
and this is what the letter said

Dear Johnny please oh please come home
I need your love and the kids they gotta be fed
And Johnny if you don’t hurry back I’ll be gone
Yes that’s what the letter said
The letter that Johnny walker read

Then John he got up from the table
Slowly so slowly he walked outside
He was thinking of his wife and little children back at home
And how his drinkin’ had ruined their lives
Then john he stared off…off into that street lamp
And a vision filled his poor poor heart with a dream (?)

For you see folks it was him, blind drunk in that gutter,
clutching in his little old hand
The letter that Johnny Walker read
And this is what it said

Dear Johnny please oh please come home
I need your love and the kids they gotta be fed
And Johnny if you don’t hurry back I’ll be gone
Yes that’s what the letter said
The letter that Johnny Walker read

Dear Johnny please oh please come home
I need your love and the kids they gotta be fed
And Johnny if you don’t hurry back I’ll be gone
Yes that’s what the letter said
The letter that Johnny Walker read

Yes that’s what the letter said
The letter that Johnny Walker read

Yes that’s what the letter said
The letter that Johnny Walker read

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from The Very Best of Asleep at the Wheel - Since 1970, released June 5, 2001

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