Got a letter this morning how you reckon it read
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Said hurry hurry gal you love is dead
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Got a letter this morning how do you reckon read
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It said "hurry hurry the gal you love is dead"
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Well, grabbed up my suitcase took off down the road
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When I go there she was laying on the cooling board
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Grabbed my suitcase and I took off down the road
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Well when I got there she was laying on the cooling board
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Well, walked up real close I looked down in her face
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That good old gal gonna lay here till judgment day
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walked real close, looking down in her face
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Well she's a good ol' gal, gonna lay here till judgment day
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Ohh hush, thought I heard her call my name
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It wasn't so loud, so nice and plain
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Mmm mmm hhmmm
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Well, wasn't so loud, whoah so nice and plain
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I ain't love but four women in my life
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My mother and my sister, dead gal and my wife
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Only loved four women in my life
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Well my mother and my sister, dead gal and my wife
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Look like ten thousand standing around the burial ground
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Didn't know I loved her till they laid her down
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Ten thousand standing around the burial ground
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Well I didn't know I loved her till they began to lay her down
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Laid her down
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Death Letter
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| The Derek Trucks Band |
