Chords
Work Song

Key: B

Introduction: Bb Cm 

Bb                                             Cm
Boys work in on empty
Bb                                                                                             Cm
Is that the kind away to face the burning heat
Bb                                                   Cm
I just think about my baby
Bb
I'm so full of love I could barely eat
Bb                                                                     Cm
There's nothings we eter than my baby
Bb                                                                         Cm
I never want once from the cherry tree
Bb                                                           Cm
Cause my baby's sweet as can be
Bb
She give me too thaches just from kissin me
Gm                   F
When, my, time comes around
Bb                                                               Cm
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm                           F
No grave can hold my body down
Bb
I'll crawl home to her
Bb                                                   Cm
That's when my baby found me
Bb                                                               Cm
I was three days on a drunkensin
Bb                                                           Cm
I woke with her walls around me
Bb                                                                     Cm
Nothin in her room but na empty crib
Bb                                                     Cm
And I was burnin up a fever
Bb                                                                   Cm
I didn't care much how long I lived
Bb                                                                     Cm
But I swear I thought I dreamed her
Bb
She never asked me once about the wrong I did
Gm                     F
When, my, time comes around
Bb                                                               Cm
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm                           F
No grave can hold my body down
Bb
I'll crawl home toher
Bb                                             Cm
My baby never fret none
Bb                                                                     Cm
About what my hands and my body done
Bb                                                     Cm
If the Lord don't forgive me
Bb
I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
Bb                                                       Cm
When I was kissing on my baby
Bb                                                                             Cm
And she put her love down soft and sweet
Bb                                                         Cm
In the low land plot I was free
Bb
Heaven and hell were words to me
Gm                     F
When, my, time comes around
Bb                                                               Cm
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
Gm                           F
No grave can hold my body down
Bb
I'll crawl home to her