Boys workin' on empty
Is that the kinda way to
face the burnin' heat
I just think about my baby
I'm so full of love
I could barely eat
There's nothin' 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 toothaches
just from kissin' 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
Boys when my baby found me
I was three days on a
drunken sin
I woke with her walls
around me
Nothin' in her room but an
empty crib
And I was burnin' 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
My babe 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 kissin' on my baby
And she put her love down
soft and sweet
In the low lamp light I was free
Heaven and hell were
words to 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
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