Fixin' to Die Blues

[00:09.93] I'm lookin' funny in my eyes
[00:11.86] And I believe I'm fixin' to die
[00:14.76] Believe I'm fixin' to die
[00:16.98] I'm lookin' funny in my eyes
[00:19.97] Now, I believe I'm fixin' to die, yeah
[00:27.16] I know I was born to die
[00:29.07] But I hate to leave my children around cryin'
[00:36.56] Yeah
[00:37.03] Just as sho' we live
[00:38.32] It's a, sho' we's born to die
[00:40.56] Sho' we's born to die
[00:42.64] Just as sho's we live
[00:46.69] Sho' we's born to die
[00:53.36] Yeah
[00:53.69] I know I was born to die
[00:55.23] But I hate to leave my children around cryin'
[01:02.48] Yeah
[01:02.73] Yo mother treated me, children
[01:04.39] Like I was her baby child
[01:06.45] Was her baby child
[01:08.83] Yo mother treated me
[01:10.78] Like I was her baby child
[01:16.98] That's why's I sighed
[01:18.25] Sighed so hard
[01:19.36] And come back home to die
[01:26.67] Yeah
[01:26.85] So many nights at the fireside
[01:28.46] How my chillen's mother would cry
[01:30.32] How my chillen's mother would cry
[01:32.80] So many nights at the fireside
[01:36.53] How my chillen's mother would cry
[01:39.75] Yeah
[01:41.05] 'Cause I told the mother I had to say, goodbye
[01:47.78] Look over yon-der
[01:49.03] On the buryin' ground
[01:51.42] On the buryin' ground
[01:53.64] Look over yonder, on the burying ground
[02:00.31] Yon' stand ten thousand
[02:02.18] Standin' still to let me down
[02:04.57] Yeah
[02:13.92] (Washboard & guitar)
[02:18.23] Mother, take my chillen back
[02:19.52] Before they let me down
[02:21.92] Before they let me down
[02:24.19] Mother, take my chillen back
[02:27.82] 'Fore they let me down
[02:32.13] Ain't no need a-them screamin' an cryin'
[02:34.27] On the graveyard ground.
[02:37.45] (Washboard & guitar to end)
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