Asleep At The Wheel - The Letter That Johnny Walker Read lyrics

Johnny Walker sat at a table at the bar, minding his own affairs drinking his namesake over rocks, drunk, too drunk to care when a girl in the bar walked up beside, and this is what she said she said a woman came by with a letter for you and 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 how his drinking had ruined their lives then John, he stared off into that streetlight and the vision filled his poor, poor heart with dread for it was him, lying drunk in that gutter clutching in his hand the letter that Johnny Walker read 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