Boys working on MT,
is that the kind of way to face the burning heat?
I just think about my baby,
I'm so full of love I could barely eat
There's nothing sweeter than my baby,
I'd never want once from the cherry tree
Cause
my baby's sweet as can be,
she'd give me toothpicks just from kissing me
When my time comes around,
lay me gently in the cold,
dark earth
No grave can hold my body down,
I'll crawl home to her
First when my baby found me,
I was three days on a drunken sin
I woke with the walls around me,
nothing in her room but an empty crib
And I was burning up a fever,
I didn't care much how long I lived
But I swear I thought I dreamed her,
she never asked me once about the wrong I did
When
my
time comes around,
lay me gently in the cold, dark earth
No grave can hold my body down,
I'll crawl home to her
When my time comes around,
lay me gently in the cold, dark earth
No grave can hold my body down,
I'll crawl home to her
I, me would never fret none,
about what my hands and my body done
If the Lord don't forgive me,
I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
When I was kissing on my baby,
and she put her love down soft and sweet
In the lonely blood I was free,
heaven and hell were words to me
When
my
time comes around,
lay me gently in the cold, dark earth