The Work Song Lyrics - Maria Muldaur - Maria Muldaur

Boys, working on empty 

Is that the kind of way to face the burning heat? 

I just think about my baby, 

I'm so full of love I could barely eat 

There's nothing sweeter than my baby 

I'd never want once from the cherry tree 

'Cause my baby's sweet as can be 

She'd give me toothaches just from kissing me 

When my time comes around, 

Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth, 

No grave can hold my body down, 

I'll crawl home to her 

Boys, when my baby found me, 

I was three days on a drunken sin 

I woke with her walls around me, 

Nothing in her room but an empty crib 

And I was burning up a fever, 

I didn't care much how long I lived 

But I swear I thought I dreamed her 

She never asked me once about the wrong I did 

When my time comes around, 

Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth, 

No grave can hold my body down, 

I'll crawl home to her 

My babe would never fret none 

About what my hands and my body done, 

If the Lord don't forgive me, 

I'd still have my baby and my babe would have me 

When I was kissing on my baby 

And she'd put her love down soft and sweet 

In the low lamp light I was free 

Heaven and Hell were words to me 

When my time comes around, 

Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth, 

No grave can hold my body down, 

I'll crawl home to her 

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