Death Letter Songtext
von John Mellencamp

I got a letter this morning
How do
You reckon it read?
"Hurry the gal you love is dead"?

I got a letter this morning
I′m wonderin'
How you reckon it read
He say, "hurry, hurry"
"On account that gal you love is dead"

I grabbed up my suitcase
I took off down the road
When I got there she was laying
On the coolin′ board
Yes, I grabbed up my suitcase

I took off down the road

When I got there
She was laying
'Lain on the coolin' board:


Well,
I walked up right close
I look down in her face
Oh, good gal
Gotta lay here ′til judgement day

I said I walked up right close
I said I look down in her face

Oh, the good ol′ gal!
Gotta lay here 'til judgement day:

Look like ten thousand people
Standing ′round the burying ground
I didn't know I loved her ′til they laid her down

Look like ten thousand
Standing 'round the burial ground

I didn′t know that I love her
'Til they laid her down:

Well,
I fol' up my arms
I slowly walk away
I say
Farewell honey. I see you judgement day.

Yeah, with nobody:
I slowly walk away

Farewell! Farewell! I see you judgement day:


You know
I didn′t feel so bad ′til the good ol' sun when down
I didn′t have a soul
To throw my arms around

I didn't feel so bad
′Til the good ol' sun down

I didn′t have a soul

To throw my arms around:

You know it's so hard to love
Someone
Don't love you

Look like it ain′t satisfaction
Don′t care what you do
Yeah: so hard
To love
Someone
Don't love you

Seem like it ain′t satisfaction
Don't care what you do:

Well,
I woke up this mornin′
The break of day
Just huggin' the pillows
She used to lay
-I say, soon.
This mourning
At break of day

Just huggin′ the pillows
Where my good gal used to lay:

And I got up
This morning
Feeling
'Round for my shoes
You know I must have
The walking blues

I say, soon.
This mourning
Feeling 'round for my shoes

You know
Nobody?

I must have the walking blues:

Hush!
Thought I heard her call my name
Wasn′t so loud
So nice and plain

I say, soon.
This mourning
I slowly walk away

Oh, good gal
Lay here ′til judgement day: