Bb                     Cm
  Boys workin on empty
   Bb                                          Cm
Is that the kinda way 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 nothing sweeter 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 toothaches just from kissin me


[Chorus]

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


[Verse]

Bb                             Cm
  Boys, when my baby found me
Bb                                 Cm
I was three days on a drunken sin
Bb                                 Cm
  I woke with her walls around me
Bb                                   Cm
Nothin in her room but an 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


[Chorus]

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     

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                 


[Verse]

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 lamp light, I was free
Bb                        
Heaven and hell were words to me


[Chorus]

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   

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