When I lay my burden down
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
when I lay my burden down
You know they call him easy money,
They found him with two jaunts
They gave him three years at eighteen
Here come the bike cops with their harleys
Now we're all here to take
He got much more than respect
from the old friends he'd made
to give him real good weed
that killed him stone dead.
Here come the white horse
crystal carriage shining,
going to take him home, take him home.
We all here to take easy money home.
You know, they call him easy money
He played the horn in Tremé
And it blew it so fine till it put him away
He played with old Danny Barker
And now we're playing for him
Oh, glory, glory, hallelujah
When I lay my burden down
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
when I lay my burden down.
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
when I lay my burden down.
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
When I lay my burden down.