I'm lookin' funny in my eyes and I believe I'm fixin' to die, believe I'm fixin' to die

I'm lookin' funny in my eyes and I believe I'm fixin' to die

I know I was born to die but I hate to leave my children cryin'



Just as sho' as we livin', just as sho' we born to die, sho' we born to die

Just as sho' as we livin', sho' we born to die

I know I was born to die but I hate to leave my children cryin'



Your mother treated me children like I was her baby child, was her baby child

Your mother treated me like I was her baby child

That's why's I find it so hard to come back home to die



So many nights at the fireside, how my children's mother would cry, how my children's mother would cry

So many nights at the fireside, how my children's mother would cry

Cause I told the mother I had to say goodbye



Look over yonder, on the burying ground, on the burying ground

Look over yonder, on the burying ground

Yon' stand ten thousand, standin' still to let me down



Mother take my children back, before they let me down, before they let me down

Mother take my children back, 'fore they let me down

I don't need for them to screamin' and cryin' on the graveyard ground