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Emotion

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

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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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