Saturday, November 19, 2011

Who wrote/recorded song with chorus "Johnnie Walker wrote this sad song I'm singing tonight"?

Heard on a folk/blues/country radio station in 1980's|||There is a song called The Letter That Johnny Walker Read by Asleep At The Wheel a country/western swing group - could it be that?|||The Letter that Johnnie Walker Read by Asleep at the Wheel.





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 in 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





[CHORUS]


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 at home


And how his drinking


Had ruined their lives





Then John, he stared off


Into that street light


And a vision filled his


Poor, poor heart with dread





For it was him lying drunk


There in that gutter


Clutching in his hand


The letter that Johnny Walker read


And this is what it said





[repeat CHORUS x2]|||the song's by WhiskyFist or by Lee Ann Womack and it's called last call

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