Asleep At The Wheel - The Letter That Johnny Walker Read

Johnny Walker sat at a table in a bar, minding his own affairs Drinking his namesake's gold on the rocks, getting drunk, too drunk to care When a girl in the bar walked up his side and this is what she said She said: "A woman came by and left a letter for you.", this is what the letter 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 Then John, he got up from the table Slowly he walked outside He was thinking of his wife and little children back home And how his drinking had ruined their lives Then John he staggered off into the streetlight And a vision filled his poor, poor heart with dread For it was him lying drunk there in the gutter Clutching in his hand the letter that Johnny Walker read And this is 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 Dear John, please Johnny please come home I need your love and the kids they gotta be fed...