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Delta Dawn Tab

by Tanya Tucker




DELTA DAWN (Alex Harvey & Larry Collins)
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[I got this from some sheet music I had lying around; it's probably
 or Tanya Tucker's in years.  I think, at least in Tucker's version, it
 modulates up a whole step for the end of the song.  I'm not sure what
 key it really should be in; I put it in G because it's easy.  (The music
 I had was in F, but F sucks.)  I'm also not sure of the placement of
 verses, choruses, etc.]
[Each chord is half a measure, except two chords joined by a hyphen
 (.. " - " are  half-measure _total_.]

                                      
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-meeting you here today
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To take you to his mansion in the sky

                                                  
She's forty-one and her daddy still calls her "baby"
                                              
All the folks around Brownsville say she's crazy
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'Cause she walks around town with a suitcase in her hand
                                       
Looking 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
And promised her he'd take her for his bride

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-meeting you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky

etc...