A# Cm Boys workin on empty A# Cm Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat? A# Cm I just think about my baby A# Iʼm so full of love I could barely eat A# Cm Thereʼs nothing sweeter than my baby A# Cm I never want once from the cherry tree A# Cm Cause my babyʼs sweet as can be A# She give me toothaches just from kissin me Gm F When, my, time comes around A# Cm Lay me gently in the cold dark earth Gm F No grave can hold my body down A# Iʼll crawl home to her A# Cm Thatʼs when my baby found me A# Cm I was three days on a drunken sin A# Cm I woke with her walls around me A# Cm Nothin in her room but an empty crib A# Cm And I was burnin up a fever A# Cm I didnʼt care much how long I lived A# Cm But I swear I thought I dreamed her A# She never asked me once about the wrong I did Gm F When, my, time comes around A# Cm Lay me gently in the cold dark earth Gm F No grave can hold my body down A# Iʼll crawl home to her A# Cm My baby never fret none A# Cm About what my hands and my body done A# Cm If the Lord donʼt forgive me A# Iʼd still have my baby and my babe would have me A# Cm When I was kissing on my baby A# Cm And she put her love down soft and sweet A# Cm In the lowland plot I was free A# Heaven and hell were words to me Gm F When, my, time comes around A# Cm Lay me gently in the cold dark earth Gm F No grave can hold my body down A# Iʼll crawl home to her
