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Johnny Walker sat at a table in a bar
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Minding his own affairs
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Drinking his namesake over the rocks

He was drunk too drunk to care
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When a girl from the bar walked up beside him
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And this is what she said
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She said a woman came by with a letter for you
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And this is what the letter said
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Dear John please Johnny please come home
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I need your love and the kids they gotta be fed
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And John if you don't hurry back I'll be gone

Yes that's what the letter said
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The letter that Johnny Walker read
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Then John he got up from the table
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Slowly so slowly he walked outside
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He was thinking of his wife and little children back at home
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And how his drinking had ruined their lives
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Then John he stared off into that street light
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In a vision filled his poor poor heart with dread
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For you see folks it was him lying drunk in the gutter
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Clutching in his hand the letter that Johnny Walker read

And this is what it said
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Yes that's what the letter said
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The letter that Johnny Walker read
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Yes that's what the letter said
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The letter that Johnny Walker read