The Letter That Johnny Walker Read (1991 Digital Remaster)

Song The Letter That Johnny Walker Read (1991 Digital Remaster)
Artist Asleep at the Wheel
Album Texas Gold/Comin' Right At Ya

Lyrics

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[00:10.74] Johnny Walker sat at a table in a bar, minding his own affairs.
[00:18.61] Drinking his namesake's gold on the rocks,
[00:23.00] getting drunk, too drunk to care
[00:26.61] When a girl in the bar walked up his side and this is what she said
[00:34.12] She said: "A woman came by and left a letter for you."
[00:38.53] this is what the letter said
[00:41.06]
[00:43.97] Dear John, please Johnny please come home
[00:50.44] I need your love and the kids they gotta be fed
[00:57.31] And John, if you don't hurry back I'll be gone
[01:03.44] Yes, that's what the letter said
[01:07.23] The letter that Johnny Walker read
[01:10.03]
[01:22.36] Then John, he got up from the table
[01:30.32] Slowly he walked outside
[01:38.28] He was thinking of his wife and little children back home
[01:45.88] And how his drinking had ruined their lives
[01:51.80]
[01:56.21] Then John he staggered off into the streetlight
[02:02.49] And a vision filled his poor, poor heart with dread
[02:10.66] For it was him lying drunk there in the gutter
[02:17.98] Clutching in his hand the letter that Johnny Walker read
[02:23.42] And this is what it said
[02:24.23]
[02:27.23] Dear John, please Johnny please come home
[02:32.72] I need your love and the kids they gotta be fed
[02:39.70] And John, if you don't hurry back I'll be gone
[02:45.84] Yes, that's what the letter said
[02:49.61] The letter that Johnny Walker read
[02:51.88]
[02:54.72] Dear John, please Johnny please come home
[03:01.19] I need your love and the kids they gotta be fed...