Intro : (x8)
B oys workin on empty
I s that the kinda way to face the burning heat?
I just think about my baby
I 'm so full of love I could barely eat
T here's nothing sweeter than my baby
I never want once from the cherry tree
C ause my baby's sweet as can be
S he give me toothaches just from kissin me
When my time comes around
Lay me gently in the cold dark e arth
No grave can h old my body down
I'll crawl home to her
T hat's when my baby found me
I was three days on a drunken sin
I woke with her walls around me
N othin in her room but an empty crib
A nd I was burnin up a fever
I didn't care much how long I lived
B ut I swear I thought I dreamed her
S he never asked me once about the wrong I did
When my t ime comes around
Lay me gently in the cold dark e arth
No grave can h old my body down
I'll crawl home to her
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M y baby never fret none
A bout what my hands and my body done
I f the Lord don't forgive me
I 'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
W hen I was kissing on my baby
A nd she put her love down soft and sweet
I n the lowland plot I was free
H eaven and hell were words to me
When my t ime comes around
Lay me gently in the cold dark e arth
No grave can h old my body down
I'll crawl home to her
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