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From: schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Adam Schneider)
Subject: /t/tanya_tucker/delta_dawn.crd
DELTA DAWN (Alex Harvey & Larry Collins)
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[I got this from some sheet music I had lying around; it's probably
transcribed from the Helen Reddy version. I haven't heard either hers
or Tanya Tucker's in years. I think, at least in Tucker's version, it
modulates up a whole step for the end of the song. I'm not sure what
key it really should be in; I put it in G because it's easy. (The music
I had was in F, but F sucks.) I'm also not sure of the placement of
verses, choruses, etc.]
[Each chord is half a measure, except two chords joined by a hyphen
(e.g. "g - D" are a half-measure _total_.]
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/tucker_tanya/delta_dawn_crd.html ]
g g C g
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on
g g D D
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by
g g C g
And did I hear you say he was a-meeting you here today
g g - D C g
To take you to his mansion in the sky
g F g g
She's forty-one and her daddy still calls her "baby"
g F g g
All the folks around Brownsville say she's crazy
C - E/B Am - D7 g g
'Cause she walks around town with a suitcase in her hand
g F g g
Looking for a mysterious dark-haired man
In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn
Prettiest woman you ever laid eyes on
Then a man of low degree stood by her side
And promised her he'd take her for his bride
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by
And did I hear you say he was a-meeting you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky
etc...
- Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu
