Delta Dawn - Barbara Ray

[Chorus]
             
Delta Dawn, wh

             
at's that flow

            
er you have on

?
             
Could it be a 

            
faded rose fro

            
m days gone by

?
             
And did I hear

              
 you say he wa

             
s meeting you 

       
here today
             
to take you to

             
 his mansion i

         
n the sky-y?

[Verse 1]
             
She's forty-on

             
e and her Dadd

              
y still calls 

    
her baby
             
All the folks 

             
around Brownsv

              
ille say she's

 
 crazy
            
When she walks

              
 downtown with

             
 her suitcase 

       
in her hand
             
looking for a 

             
mysterious dar

         
k haired man

[Verse 2]
             
In her younger

             
 days they cal

              
led her Delta 


Dawn
             
Prettiest woma

             
n you ever lai

       
d eyes on
            
Then a man of 

             
low degree sto

          
od by her side
             
promised her h

             
e'd take her f

       
or his bride

[Chorus]
             
Delta Dawn, wh

             
at's that flow

            
er you have on

?
             
Could it be a 

            
faded rose fro

            
m days gone by

?
             
And did I hear

              
 you say he wa

             
s meeting you 

       
here today
             
to take you to

             
 his mansion i

         
n the sky-y?

[Outro]
             
Delta Dawn, wh

             
at's that flow

            
er you have on

?
             
Could it be a 

            
faded rose fro

            
m days gone by

?
             
And did I hear

              
 you say he wa

             
s meeting you 

       
here today
             
to take you to

             
 his mansion i

         
n the sky-y?