Delta Dawn:Helen Reddy.
#1 in 1973.

[Chorus] 
(a Capella)
             
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 a-meeting yo

         
u 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.
             
Cause she walk

           
s downtown wit

            
h 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 a-meeting yo

         
u here today..
             
to take you to

             
 his mansion i

           
n the sky - y?

[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 a-meeting yo

         
u here today..
             
to take you to

             
 his mansion i

           
n the sky - y?

[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 a-meeting yo

         
u here today..
             
to take you to

             
 his mansion i

           
n the sky - y?

[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 a-meeting yo

         
u 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

?..(Fade.)


A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.