The Letter That Johnny Walker Read

Recorded by Alseep At The Wheel

Written by Ray Benson, Leroy Preston, Chris Frayne
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Johnny Walker sat at a table in a bar
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Minding his own affairs
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Drinking his namesake over the rocks
He was drunk too drunk to care
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When a girl from the bar walked up beside him
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And this is what she said
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She said a woman came by with a letter for you
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And this is what the letter said
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Dear John please Johnny please come home
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I need your love and the kids they gotta be fed
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And John if you don't hurry back I'll be gone
Yes that's what the letter said
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The letter that Johnny Walker read
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Then John he got up from the table
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Slowly so slowly he walked outside
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He was thinking of his wife and little children back at home
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And how his drinking had ruined their lives
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Then John he stared off into that street light
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In a vision filled his poor poor heart with dread
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For you see folks it was him lying drunk in the gutter
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Clutching in his hand the letter that Johnny Walker read
And this is what it said
Repeat #3 x2
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Yes that's what the letter said

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The letter that Johnny Walker read
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Yes that's what the letter said
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The letter that Johnny Walker read

Bed of Roses - The Statler Brothers

Verse 1:
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She was called a scarlet woman by the people
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Who would go to church but left me in the street
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With no parents of my own, I never had a home
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And an eighteen year old boy has got to eat.

Verse 2:
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She found me outside one Sunday morning
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Begging money from a man I didn't know
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She took me in and wiped away my childhood
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A woman of the streets this lady Rose.

Chorus:
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This bed of Rose's that I lay on
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Where I was taught to be a man
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This bed of Rose's where I'm livin'
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Is the only kind of life I understand.

Verse3:
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She was a handsome woman, just thirty-five
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Who was spoken to in town by very few
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She managed a Lady of the Evening business
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Like most of the town wished they could do.

Verse 4:
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And I learned all the things that a man should know
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From a woman not approved of I suppose
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But she died knowing that I really loved her
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Off life's bramble bush, I picked a rose