Lonesome Graveyard chords by
Lightnin' Hopkins

N/A

Key: D major

Verse 1
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Sleep on,
G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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sleep on, sleep on
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Little girl, sleep on, just sleep on
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Sleep on, sleep on
D D 
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Eb Eb 6
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Little girl, just sleep on, sleep on
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D D 
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Well, I know you're dead, resting darling, but one day

Verse 2

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I know the graveyard gonna be my

home

Every living people got to die, human beings

Verse 3
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Mama was rocking by the window
howling
“My poor child is dead,
G G 
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yes, she's dead
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Yeah, you know my poor child
is dead and gone”
But made me feel so
good, she said this
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Sleep on, sleep on, son

Verse 4
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G G 
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D D 
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Do you know your mother is coming
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D D 
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on?
G G 
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The graveyard ain't too beautiful
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But it will give you a home so long
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Interlude 1

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Verse 5
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G G 
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I wouldn't mind dying
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Poor Lightnin' would just have to lay
dead so long
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Wouldn't mind dying
But I'd have to lay dead
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so long

Verse 6

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That I wouldn't have a chance

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To come back here and tell my friends

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No, nobody, what is going on

Interlude 2

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Verse 7
D D 
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G G 
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Told my baby, don't worry if I die
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Darling, I know I'm gonna leave your little
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bed warm
Don't worry if poor Lightnin' lay
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down and die
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'Cause I'm gonna leave

Verse 8
your little bed very warm
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You know, I can't worry when I'm dead and gone,
but one thing
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Little girl, I know you is coming home