Fixin' To Die Blues

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
 Now, I believe I'm fixin' to die, yeah
 I know I was born to die
 But I hate to leave my children around cryin'
 Yeah
 Just as sho' we live
 It's a, sho' we's born to die
 Sho' we's born to die
 Just as sho's we live
 Sho' we's born to die
 Yeah
 I know I was born to die
 But I hate to leave my children around cryin'
 Yeah
 Yo mother treated me, children
 Like I was her baby child
 Was her baby child
 Yo mother treated me
 Like I was her baby child
 That's why's I sighed
 Sighed so hard
 And come back home to die
 Yeah
 So many nights at the fireside
 How my chillen's mother would cry
 How my chillen's mother would cry
 So many nights at the fireside
 How my chillen's mother would cry
 Yeah
 'Cause I told the mother I had to say, goodbye
 Look over yon-der
 On the buryin' ground
 On the buryin' ground
 Look over yonder, on the burying ground
 Yon' stand ten thousand
 Standin' still to let me down
 Yeah
 (Washboard & guitar)
 Mother, take my chillen back
 Before they let me down
 Before they let me down
 Mother, take my chillen back
 'Fore they let me down
 Ain't no need a-them screamin' an cryin'
 On the graveyard ground.
 (Washboard & guitar to end)