Death Letter by Derek Trucks Band
Death Letter lyrics
1st Verse:
Got a letter this morning how you breaking in red
Said hurry hurry gal you love is dead
Got a letter this morning how do you reckon red
It said hurry hurry the gal you love is dead
2nd Verse:
Well, grabbed up my suitcase took off down the road
When I go there she was laying on the cooling board
Grabbed my suitcase and I took off down the road
Well when I got there she was laying on the cooling
board
3rd Verse:
Well, walked up real close I looked down in her face
That good old gal gonna lay here till judgement day
walked real close, looking down in her face
Well she's a good ol' gal, gonna lay here till
judgement day
(Warren solo)
(Derek solo)
4th Verse:
Ohh hush, thought I heard her call my name
It wasn't so loud, so nice and plain
Mmm mmm hhmmm
Well, wasn't so loud, whoah so nice and plain
5th Verse:
I ain't love but four women in my life
My mother and my sister, dead gal and my wife
Only loved four women in my life
Well my mother and my sister, dead gal and my wife
6th Verse:
Look like ten thousand standing around the burial
ground
Didn't know I loved her till they laid her down
Ten thousand standing around the burial ground
Well I didn't know I loved her till they began to lay
her down
Laid her down
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