Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on Could it be a faded rose of days gone by And did I hear you say he was meetin' you here today To take you to his mansion in the sky She's forty-one and her daddy still calls her baby All the folks around Brownsville say she's crazy 'Cause she walks downtown with a suitcase in her hand Looking for a mysterious dark haired man In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn Prettiest woman you'd ever laid eyes on But a man of low degree stood by her side Promised her he'd take her for his bride Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on Could it be a faded rose of days gone by And did I hear you say he was meetin' you here today To take you to his mansion in the sky Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on Could it be a faded rose of days gone by And did I hear you say he was meetin' you here today To take you to his mansion in the sky