Capo 3
Intro
[G6] [Am] [G6] [Am] [G6] [Em] [G6]
[G6] [Am] [G6] [Am] [G6] [Em] [G6]
Verse 1
[G6] [Am] [G6]
Boys, workin' on empty
[Am] [G6]
Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?
[Am] [G6]
I just think about my baby
I'm so full of love I could barely eat
[G6] [Am] [G6]
There's nothing sweeter than my baby
[Am] [G6]
I'd never want once from the cherry tree
[Am] [G6]
'Cause my baby's sweet as can be
She give me toothaches just from kissin' me
Chorus
[Em] [D]
When, my, time comes around
[G6] [Am]
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
[Em] [D]
No grave can hold my body down
[G6]
I'll crawl home to her
Verse 2
[G6] [Am] [G6]
Boys, when my baby found me
[Am] [G6]
I was three days on a drunken sin
[Am] [G6]
I woke with her walls around me
Nothin' in her room but an empty crib
[G6] [Am] [G6]
And I was burnin' up a fever
[Am] [G6]
I didn't care much how long I lived
[Am] [G6]
But I swear I thought I dreamed her
[Am] [G6]
She never asked me once about the wrong I did
Chorus
[Em] [D]
When, my, time comes around
[G6] [Am]
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
[Em] [D]
No grave can hold my body down
[G6]
I'll crawl home to her
[Em] [D]
When, my, time comes around
[G6] [Am]
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
[Em] [D]
No grave can hold my body down
[G6]
I'll crawl home to her
Verse 3
[G6] [Am] [G6]
My baby never fret none
[Am] [G6]
About what my hands and my body done
[Am] [G6]
If the Lord don't forgive me
I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
[G6] [Am] [G6]
When I was kissing on my baby
[Am] [G6]
And she put her love down soft and sweet
[Am] [G6]
In the low lamp light I was free
Heaven and hell were words to me
Chorus
[Em] [D]
When, my, time comes around
[G6] [Am]
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
[Em] [D]
No grave can hold my body down
[G6]
I'll crawl home to her
[Em] [D]
When, my, time comes around
[G6] [Am]
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
[Em] [D]
No grave can hold my body down
[G6]
I'll crawl home to her
