Work Song chords by Maria Muldaur

Intro: Bb Cm (Eigth times)

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