Heavy Burdens Me Down

On the night I was born
 Mama gave her soul, Lord
 To Jesus, sweet Jesus
 And from her final place she cried
 "Son, it's Yours to be the man
 You go and pull this world together, child
 Try and help them understand"
 Heavy burdens me down
 Heavy burdens me down
 Heavy, heavy burdens me down
 I don't know it for pain
 On the night of the war
 Mamas gave their young ones
 Just to keep us
 And from their final resting place
 You know I, I heard them cry
 "Oh God, please send my baby home
 Don't You let, don't You let, my young boy die"
 You see that burdens me down
 Don't You know, don't You know
 Heavy burdens me down, down, down?
 It's so heavy, heavy burdens me-
 Yeah, You know it burdens me down
 It's not that I'm ungrateful, God
 It's not that I don't care
 But the old men lie
 And the young ones die
 I can't, I can't relieve the spell
 And it burdens me down
 You know it burdens me down
 It's so heavy, heavy burdens me down, down, down
 Now don't it burden You down?
 Heavy, burdens me down
 Can You hear me now? Don't it burden You down
 When it's heavy, heavy, when it's heavy, heavy?
 Heavy, burdens me, yeah, You know it burdens me down