When my time comes around
lay me gently in the cold dark earth
so no grave can hold my body down
I'll crawl home to her
bodies working on empty
is that the kind of way to face the burning heat
just think about my baby
I'm so full of love I can barely eat
there's nothing sweeter than my baby
I never won once from the cherry tree
cause my baby sweet as can be
she give me toothaches 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
boys when my baby found me
I was three days on a drunken sin
I woke with her walls around me
nothing in this 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
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