Key: Bb major
Verse 1
I'm fixin' to die, believe I'm fixin' to die
Gm
C
G
believe I'm fixin' to die
I know I was born to die but I
hate to leave my children cryin'
Just as sho' as we livin', just as sho' we born to
die, sho' we born to die
Just as sho' as we livin',
sho' we born to die
I know I was born to die
but I hate to leave my children cryin'
Your mother treated me, children, like I was her baby child,
was her baby child
C
G
That's why's I find it so hard to come back
C
G
home
Gm
G
C
to die
G
Gm
G
C
G
So many nights at the fireside,
C
G
how my children's mother would cry,
G
would cry
Cause I told the mother I
had to say goodbye
Gm
G
Look over yonder, on the burying ground,
on the burying ground
Yon' stand ten thousand,
C
G
standin' still to let me down
C
G
Mother take my children back, before they let me down,
Gm
G
before they let me down
I don't need for them to screamin'
C
G
and cryin' on the graveyard ground
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