Cassandra Wilson

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Death Letter

Death Letter lyrics by Cassandra Wilson. I got a letter this morning What do you reckon it read? It said: the man you love is dead I got a letter this morning...

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Death Letter

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I got a letter this morning

What do you reckon it read?

It said: the man you love is dead

I got a letter this morning

What do you reckon it read?

Said: hurry, hurry because the man you love is dead

Well, I packed up my suitcase

I took off down the road

When I got there she was layin' on the cooling board

I packed up my suitcase

And I took off down the road

When I got there she was layin' on the cooling board

It looked like ten thousand people standing around the burial ground

I didn't know I loved her 'till they began to let him down

Looked like ten thousand people standing on the burial ground

I didn't know that I loved him 'till they began to let him down

You know it's so hard to love

Someone that don't love you

Won't get satisfaction

Don't care what you do

So hard to love

Someone that don't love you

Don't look like satisfaction

Don't care what you do

Well,I got up this morning

The break of day

Just hugging the pillows

She used to lay

Got up this morning

The break of day

Just hugging the pillows

Where my baby used to lay

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