Intro
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Verse 1
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Boys workin' on empty
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Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?
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I just think about my baby
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I'm so full of love I could barely eat
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There's nothing sweeter than my baby
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I'd never want once from the cherry tree
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'Cause my baby's sweet as can be
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She give me toothaches just from kissin' me
Chorus
[Gm] [F]
When, my, time comes around
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Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
[Gm] [F]
No grave can hold my body down
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I'll crawl home to her
Verse 2
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Boys, when my baby found me
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I was three days on a drunken sin
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I woke with her walls around me
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Nothin' in her room but an empty crib
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And I was burnin' up a fever
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I didn't care much how long I lived
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But I swear I thought I dreamed her
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She never asked me once about the wrong I did
Chorus
[Gm] [F]
When, my, time comes around
[Bb] [Cm]
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
[Gm] [F]
No grave can hold my body down
[Bb]
I'll crawl home to her
[Gm] [F]
When, my, time comes around
[Bb] [Cm]
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
[Gm] [F]
No grave can hold my body down
[Bb]
I'll crawl home to her
Verse 3
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My babe would never fret none
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About what my hands and my body done
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If the Lord don't forgive me
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I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
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When I was kissing on my baby
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And she put her love down soft and sweet
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In the low lamp light, I was free
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Heaven and hell were words to me
Chorus
[Gm] [F]
When, my, time comes around
[Bb] [Cm]
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
[Gm] [F]
No grave can hold my body down
[Bb]
I'll crawl home to her
[Gm] [F]
When, my, time comes around
[Bb] [Cm]
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
[Gm] [F]
No grave can hold my body down
[Bb]
I'll crawl home to her
Outro
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