[Intro] 

     x8


[Verse]

            
  Boys workin 

         
on empty
            
Is that the ki

              
nda way to fac

              
e the burning 

     
heat?
            
  I just think

                
 about my baby
            
I'm so full of

              
 love I could 

  
barely eat
            
  There's noth

              
ing sweeter th

            
an my baby
            
I never want o

              
nce from the c

            
herry tree
            
  Cause my bab

              
y's sweet as c

   
an be
            
She give me to

              
othaches just 

  
from kissin me


[Chorus]

           
    When, my, 

time comes aro

und
            
    Lay me gen

              
tly in the col

       
d dark earth
            
    No grave c

   
an hold my bod

y down

    I'll crawl

 home to her


[Verse]

            
  Boys, when m

              
y baby found m

   
e
            
I was three da

              
ys on a drunke

       
n sin
            
  I woke with 

              
her walls arou

       
nd me
            
Nothin in her 

              
room but an em

         
pty crib
            
  And I was bu

              
rnin up a feve

   
r
            
I didn't care 

              
much how long 

         
I lived
            
  But I swear 

              
I thought I dr

          
eamed her
            
She never aske

              
d me once abou

  
t the wrong I 

did


[Chorus]

           
    When, my, 

time comes aro

und
            
    Lay me gen

              
tly in the col

       
d dark earth
            
    No grave c

   
an hold my bod

y down

    I'll crawl

 home to her  

   

           
    When, my, 

time comes aro

und
            
    Lay me gen

              
tly in the col

       
d dark earth
            
    No grave c

   
an hold my bod

y down

    I'll crawl

 home to her  

              

 


[Verse]

            
  My baby neve

             
r fret none
            
About what my 

              
hands and my b

          
ody done
            
  If the Lord 

              
don't forgive 

    
me
            
I'd still have

              
 my baby and m

  
y babe would h

ave me
            
  When I was k

              
issing on my b

     
aby
            
And she put he

              
r love down so

             
ft and sweet
            
  In the low l

              
amp light, I w

  
as free
            
Heaven and hel

            
l were words t

o me


[Chorus]

           
    When, my, 

time comes aro

und
            
    Lay me gen

              
tly in the col

       
d dark earth
            
    No grave c

   
an hold my bod

y down

    I'll crawl

 home to her  

 

           
    When, my, 

time comes aro

und
            
    Lay me gen

              
tly in the col

       
d dark earth
            
    No grave c

   
an hold my bod

y down

    I'll crawl

 home to her  

        


[Outro]

    x4