And When I Die Lyrics - Map To The Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro - Billy Childs

And when I die and when I'm dead, dead and gone 

There'll be one child born and a world to carry on, to carry on 

I'm not scared of dying and I don't really care 

If it's peace you find in dying, well, then let the time be near 

If it's peace you find in dying, when dying time is here 

Just bundle up my coffin 'cause it's cold way down there 

I hear that's it's cold way down there, yeah, crazy cold way down there 

And when I die and when I'm gone 

There'll be one child born and a world to carry on, to carry on 

My troubles are many, they're as deep as a well 

I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell 

Swear there ain't no heaven and pray there ain't no hell 

But I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell 

Only my dying will tell, yeah, only my dying will tell 

And when I die and when I'm gone 

There'll be one child born and a world to carry on, to carry on 

Give me my freedom for as long as I be 

All I ask of living is to have no chains on me 

All I ask of living is to have no chains on me 

And all I ask of dying is to go naturally, only want to go naturally 

Don't want to go by the devil, don't want to go by the demon 

Don't want to go by Satan, don't want to die uneasy 

Just let me go naturally 

And when I die and when I'm gone 

There'll be one child born, there'll be one child born 

When I die 

There'll be one child born 

When I die 

There'll be one child born 

When I die 

There'll be one child born 

When I die 

There'll be one child born 

When I die 

There'll be one child born