Intro -x8-: Bb  Cm

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Boys workin on empty
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Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?
Bb                           Cm
I just think about my baby
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I'm so full of love I could barely eat
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There's nothing sweeter than my baby
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I never want once from the cherry tree
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Cause my baby's sweet as can be
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She give me toothaches just from kissin me


Gm           F
    When, my, time comes around
Bb                                 Cm
    Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm               F
    No grave can hold my body down
Bb
    I'll crawl home to her


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That's when my baby found me
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I was three days on a drunken sin
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I woke with her walls around me
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Nothin in her room but an empty crib
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And I was burnin up a fever
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I didn't care much how long I lived
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But I swear I thought I dreamed her
Bb                        
She never asked me once about the wrong I did


Gm            F
    When, my, time comes around
Bb                                 Cm
    Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm               F
    No grave can hold my body down
Bb
    I'll crawl home to her


Bb                        Cm
My baby never fret none
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About what my hands and my body done
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If the Lord don't forgive me
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I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
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When I was kissing on my baby
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And she put her love down soft and sweet
Bb                              Cm
In the lowland plot I was free
Bb                        
Heaven and hell were words to me


Gm            F
    When, my, time comes around
Bb                                 Cm
    Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm               F
    No grave can hold my body down
Bb
    I'll crawl home to her  

Outro -x4-: Bb  Cm