Start
Intro
B B B B B B
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Verse
B B C#m
■ Boys workin' on empty ■
B C#m
Is that the kinda way to face the burning heat ■
B C#m
I just think about my baby ■
B B
I'm so full of love I could barely ■ eat
B C#m
There's nothing sweeter than my baby ■
B C#m
I'd never want once from the cherry tree ■
B C#
'cause my baby's sweet as can be
B
She give me toothaches just from kissin' me
Chorus
G#m7 F# B
■ When my ■ time comes around ■
BM7 B C#m7 G#m7
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth ■
F# B
No grave can hold my body down ■
B
I'll crawl home to her
Verse
B B
■ That's when my baby found me
B C#
I was three days on a drunken sin ■
B F#sus4 B
I woke with her walls around me ■
B
Nothin' in her room but an empty crib
B C#m
And I was burnin' up a fever ■
B C#m7
I didn't care much how long I lived ■
B C#m7
But I swear I thought I dreamed her ■
B
She never asked me once about the wrong I did
Chorus
G#m7 F# B
■ When my ■ time comes around ■
B C#m7 E
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth ■
G#m7 F# B
No grave can hold my body down ■
B G#m F# F#7 B
I'll crawl home to her When my ■ time comes around ■
B G#m
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth ■
F# B
No grave can hold my body down ■
I'll crawl home to her
Bridge
B B C#m
My babe would ■ never fret none ■
B B7 B C#7 C#m
About what my hands and my body done ■ ■
B7 B C#
If the Lord don't forgive me ■
B
I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me
B C#m
When I was kissing on my baby ■
B C# B
And she put her love down soft and sweet ■
B C#
In the low lamp light I was free
B B
Heaven and hell were words to me ■
Chorus
G#m F# B
■ When my ■ time comes around ■
B C#m7 G#m
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth ■
F# B
No grave can hold my body down ■
B G#m
I'll crawl home to ■ her
F# B
When my ■ time comes around ■
B C#m7 E
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth ■
F# B
No grave can hold my body down ■
B
I'll crawl home to her
Outro
B B C# B B
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