Go Dig My Grave chords by Jean Ritchie
Verse 1
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Well, I'll be gone
these lonesome days
I'll return again, here's what I say
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Go dig my grave, both wide and deep.
Place a marble stone at
my head and my feet.
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Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, hear me.
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, hear me.
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She went upstairs to make her bed
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And not one word to her mama said
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Her mama she went upstairs to
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Says daughter,
oh daughter, what troubles
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Oh mama dear, I cannot tell
That railroad boy I love so well
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He courted me my life away
And now with me he will not stay
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Oh Lord, Oh Lord, Oh Lordy me.
Oh Lord, Oh Lord,
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Oh Lordy me.
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Her papa, he come home from work
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Says, where's my daughter,
she seems so hurt
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He went up stairs
just to give her hope
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And he found her hanging from a rope
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O Lord, O Lord, O Lord in me
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O Lord, O Lord, O Lord in me
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Well, took his knife
and he cut her down
And in her bosom these words he found
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Oh, dig my grave both
wide and deep
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Place a marble stone at
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my head and my feet
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And on my breast place a
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snow white dove
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To tell this world I died for love
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Oh lord, oh lord, oh lordy me
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Oh lord, oh lord,
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oh lordy me
Go Dig My Grave
Jean Ritchie
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