Lyrics The Letter (The Johnny Walker Read) [Live Version] - Asleep at the Wheel

Me and Elizabeth are gonna sing this song about The Letter That Johnny Walker Read
Hit it boy

Johnny Walker sat at a table in a bar
Minding his own affairs
Drinking his namesake over the rocks
He was drunk, too drunk to care
When a girl from the bar walked up beside him
And this is what she said

She said, "A woman came by with a letter for you"
And this is what the letter said (singing letter)

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, so slowly he walked outside
You know he was thinking of his wife and his 12 little children back at home
And how his drinking had ruined their lives
And folks, here is where it gets really, really sad

And John, he stared off into that streetlight
And a vision filled his poor, poor heart with dread
For you see, folks, it was him lying drunk there in the gutter
All covered with flies and stuff

Clutching in his little ol' hand, the letter that Johnny Walker read
This here 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 Johnny Walker read
Here you go!

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

Yes, that′s what the letter said
The letter that Johnny Walker read (everybody)
Yes, that's what the letter said
The letter that Johnny Walker read