Work Song

[00:32.33] Boys workin' on empty

[00:35.60] Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?

[00:39.87] I just think about my baby

[00:43.38] I'm so full of love I could barely eat

[00:47.92] There's nothing sweeter than my baby

[00:51.44] I'd never want once from the cherry tree

[00:55.74] 'Cause my baby's sweet as can be

[00:59.26] She give me toothaches just from kissin' me

[01:03.80] When my time comes around

[01:07.83] Lay me gently in the cold dark earth

[01:11.60] No grave can hold my body down

[01:15.64] I'll crawl home to her

[01:19.66] Boys, when my baby found me

[01:22.93] I was three days on a drunken sin

[01:27.45] I woke with her walls around me

[01:30.97] Nothin' in her room but an empty crib

[01:35.50] And I was burnin' up a fever

[01:38.79] I didn't care much how long I lived

[01:43.36] But I swear I thought I dreamed her

[01:46.64] She never asked me once about the wrong I did

[01:52.18] When my time comes around

[01:55.21] Lay me gently in the cold dark earth

[01:59.23] No grave can hold my body down

[02:02.99] I'll crawl home to her

[02:07.01] When my time comes around

[02:10.77] Lay me gently in the cold dark earth

[02:15.06] No grave can hold my body down

[02:18.81] I'll crawl home to her

[02:22.87] My baby never fret none

[02:26.41] About what my hands and my body done

[02:30.74] If the Lord don't forgive me

[02:34.06] I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me

[02:38.84] When I was kissing on my baby

[02:42.13] And she put her love down soft and sweet

[02:46.66] In the low lamp light I was free

[02:50.18] Heaven and hell were words to me

[02:54.45] When my time comes around

[02:58.47] Lay me gently in the cold dark earth

[03:02.24] No grave can hold my body down

[03:06.02] I'll crawl home to her

[03:10.32] When my time comes around

[03:14.10] Lay me gently in the cold dark earth

[03:18.38] No grave can hold my body down

[03:22.41] I'll crawl home to her