Work Song

Boys workin' on empty
 Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?
 I just think about my baby
 I'm so full of love I could barely eat
 There's nothing sweeter than my baby
 I'd never want once from the cherry tree
 'Cause my baby's sweet as can be
 She give me toothaches just from kissin' 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
 That's when my baby found me
 I was three days on a drunken sin
 I woke with her walls around me
 Nothin' in her room, but an empty crib
 And I was burnin' up a fever
 I didn't care much, how long I lived
 But I swear I thought I dreamed her
 She 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
 My babe would never fret none
 About what my hands and my body done
 If the Lord don't forgive me
 I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
 When I was kissing on my baby
 And she put her love down soft and sweet
 In the low lamp light I was free
 Heaven and hell were words to 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
 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 workin' on empty
 Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?
 I just think about my baby
 I'm so full of love I could barely eat
 There's nothing sweeter than my baby
 I'd never want once from the cherry tree
 'Cause my baby's sweet as can be
 She give me toothaches just from kissin' 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
 That's when my baby found me
 I was three days on a drunken sin
 I woke with her walls around me
 Nothin' in her room, but an empty crib
 And I was burnin' up a fever
 I didn't care much, how long I lived
 But I swear I thought I dreamed her
 She 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
 My babe would never fret none
 About what my hands and my body done
 If the Lord don't forgive me
 I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
 When I was kissing on my baby
 And she put her love down soft and sweet
 In the low lamp light I was free
 Heaven and hell were words to 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
 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