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 never want once from the cherry tree

Cause my baby's sweet as can be

She give me toothaches just from kissin me



[Chorus:]

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



[Chorus 2x]



My baby 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 lowland plot I was free

Heaven and hell were words to me



[Chorus 2x]