Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Graveyard Lyrics
Sleep on, sleep on, sleep onLittle girl, sleep on, just sleep onSleep on, sleep on,Little girl, just sleep on, sleep onWell I know you're dead and resting darling, but one dayI know the graveyard's gonna be my home(every living people got to die, human beings)Mama was rocking by the window,Howling: my poor child is dead, yes she's deadYeah you know my poor child is dead and gone(What made me feel so good, she said this:)Sleep on, sleep on son,Do you know your mother is coming on?Whoa the graveyard ain't too beautiful,But it will give you a home so long.I wouldn't mind dying,Po' Lightnin' would just have to lay dead so longWouldn't mind dying,but I'd have to lay dead so longThat I wouldn't have a chance to come back here and tell my friends,No nobody, what is going on.Told my baby, don't worry if I die, darling,I know I'm gonna leave your little bed warmDon't worry if po' Lightnin' lay down and die,'Cause I'm gonna leave your little bed very warmWhoa you know, I can't worry when I'm dead and gone, but one thing,Little girl, I know you is coming home.
