Tom: F# Gb G#m Gb G#m Lay me gently in the cold dark earth Boys workin on empty D#m C# Gb G#m No grave can hold my body down Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat? Gb Gb G#m I'll crawl home to her I just think about my baby Gb Gb G#m I'm so full of love I could barely eat My baby never fret none Gb G#m Gb G#m There's nothing sweeter than my baby About what my hands and my body done Gb G#m Gb G#m I never want once from the cherry tree If the Lord don't forgive me Gb G#m Gb Cause my baby's sweet as can be I'd still have my baby and my babe would have Gb me She give me toothaches just from kissin me Gb G#m When I was kissing on my baby D#m C# Gb G#m When, my, time comes around And she put her love down soft and sweet Gb G#m Gb G#m Lay me gently in the cold dark earth In the lowland plot I was free D#m C# Gb No grave can hold my body down Heaven and hell were words to me Gb I'll crawl home to her D#m C# When, my, time comes around Gb G#m Gb G#m That's when my baby found me Lay me gently in the cold dark earth Gb G#m D#m C# I was three days on a drunken sin No grave can hold my body down Gb G#m Gb I woke with her walls around me I'll crawl home to her Gb G#m Nothin in her room but an empty crib Gb G#m And I was burnin up a fever Gb G#m I didn't care much how long I lived Gb G#m But I swear I thought I dreamed her Gb She never asked me once about the wrong I did