Delta Dawn chords by
Tanya Tucker
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Key: Bb major

Chorus 1
Bb Bb 
 
Eb Eb 
 
Bb Bb 
 
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on?
F F 
 
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
Bb Bb 
 
Eb Eb 
 
And did I hear you say he was a- meeting
Bb Bb 
 
you here today
F F 
 
Eb Eb 
 
Bb Bb 
 
To take you to his mansion in the sky?

Verse 1
Bb Bb 
 
Ab Ab 
 
She's forty-one and her daddy
Bb Bb 
 
still calls her "baby"
Ab Ab 
 
All the folks around Brownsville
Bb Bb 
 
say she's crazy
Eb Eb 
 
Bb Bb 
 
'Cause she walks downtown
Cm Cm 
 
F F 
 
Bb Bb 
 
with a suitcase in her hand
Ab Ab 
 
Bb Bb 
 
Looking for a mysterious dark-haired man

Verse 2
Bb Bb 
 
Ab Ab 
 
In her younger days they called
Bb Bb 
 
her Delta Dawn
Ab Ab 
 
Bb Bb 
 
Prettiest woman you ever laid eyes on
Eb Eb 
 
Bb Bb 
 
Cm Cm 
 
Then a man of low degree
F F 
 
Bb Bb 
 
stood by her side
Ab Ab 
 
Bb Bb 
 
Promised her he'd take her for his bride

Chorus 2
C C 
 
F F 
 
C C 
 
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on?
G G 
 
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
C C 
 
F F 
 
And did I hear you say he was a- meeting
C C 
 
you here today
G G 
 
F F 
 
C C 
 
To take you to his mansion in the sky?

Chorus 3
C C 
 
F F 
 
C C 
 
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on?
G G 
 
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
C C 
 
F F 
 
And did I hear you say he was a- meeting
C C 
 
you here today
G G 
 
F F 
 
C C 
 
To take you to his mansion in the sky?

Chorus 4
C C 
 
F F 
 
C C 
 
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on?
G G 
 
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
C C 
 
F F 
 
And did I hear you say he was a- meeting
C C 
 
you here today
G G 
 
F F 
 
C C 
 
To take you to his mansion in the sky?
[Repeat and Fade out]

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