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