Work Song chords by Maria Muldaur

Chords with lyrics

Intro: Bb majorBb C minorCm (Eigth times)

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