Intro -x8-: A# Cm A# Cm Boys workin on emptyA# Cm Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?A# Cm I just think about my babyA# I'm so full of love I could barely eatA# Cm There's nothing sweeter than my babyA# Cm I never want once from the cherry treeA# Cm Cause my baby's sweet as can beA# She give me toothaches just from kissin me Gm F When, my, time comes aroundA# Cm Lay me gently in the cold dark earthGm F No grave can hold my body downA# I'll crawl home to her A# Cm That's when my baby found meA# Cm I was three days on a drunken sinA# Cm I woke with her walls around meA# Cm Nothin in her room but an empty cribA# Cm And I was burnin up a feverA# Cm I didn't care much how long I livedA# Cm But I swear I thought I dreamed herA# She never asked me once about the wrong I did Gm F When, my, time comes aroundA# Cm Lay me gently in the cold dark earthGm F No grave can hold my body downA# I'll crawl home to her A# Cm My baby never fret noneA# Cm G#out what my hands and my body doneA# Cm If the Lord don't forgive meA# I'd still have my baby and my babe would have meA# Cm When I was kissing on my babyA# Cm And she put her love down soft and sweetA# Cm In the lowland plot I was freeA# Heaven and hell were words to me Gm F When, my, time comes aroundA# Cm Lay me gently in the cold dark earthGm F No grave can hold my body downA# I'll crawl home to her Outro -x4-: A# Cm
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