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