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The Letter (That Johnny Walker Read) [live]
Asleep At The Wheel
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Me and Elizabeth are going to sing this song about the letter that Johnny Walker read.
Hit it, boys.
Johnny Walker sat at a table in a bar
Minding his own affairs
Drinking his namesake 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
The singing letter
Dear John
Please, Johnny, please come home
I need your love
And the girl
And the kids
They gotta be fed
And John
If you don't hurry back
I'll be gone
Yes, that's what the letter said
The letter that Johnny Walker read
River!
And John, he got up from the table
Slowly, so slowly he walked outside
You know, he was thinking
Of his wife
And his twelve little children back at home
And how his drinking had ruined their lives
But folks, here's where it gets really, really sad
And John, he stared off into that streetlight
And a vision filled his poor, poor heart with dread
For you see, folks, it was him
Lying drunk there in the gutter
All covered with flies and stuff
Clutching his gun
And his little old hand
The letter that Johnny Walker read
And this here's what it said
Dear John
Please, Johnny, please come home
I need your love
And the kids, they gotta be fed
And John
If you don't hurry back
I'll be gone
Yes, that's what the letter said
The letter that Johnny Walker read





The letter that Johnny Walker read
There we go!
Dear John
Please, Johnny, please come home
I need your love
And the kids, they gotta be fed
And John
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 ladders said, the letter with Johnny Walker in it.
Yes, that's what the ladders said, the letter with Johnny Walker in it.
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