Lonesome Graveyard chords by Lightnin' Hopkins
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Verse 1
(D major)
Sleep on,
sleep on, sleep on (G major) (D major) (G major)
(D major) Little girl, sleep on, just sleep on
Sleep on, (G major) sleep on
(D major) Little girl, just sleep on, sleep on (E flat major)
(D major) Well, I know you're dead, resting (A major) darling, but (D major) one day
Verse 2
(G major)
I know the (D major) graveyard gonna be my
home
Every living people got to die, human beings
Verse 3
(D major) Mama was rocking by the window
howling
“My poor child is dead,
yes, she's dead (G major)
(D major) Yeah, you know my poor child
is dead and gone”
But made me feel so
good, she said this
Sleep on, sleep (G major) on, son
Verse 4
(D major) (G major)
(D major) Do you know your mother is coming
on? (E flat major) (D major)
The graveyard ain't too beautiful (G major)
(D major) But it will give you a home so long
(E flat major)
Interlude 1
(D major)
(G major) (D major)
Verse 5
I wouldn't mind dying (D major) (G major)
(D major) Poor Lightnin' would just have to lay
dead so long
Wouldn't mind (G major) dying
But I'd have to lay dead
so long (D major)
Verse 6
(D major)
That I wouldn't have a chance
To come back here and tell my friends (G major)
(D major) No, nobody, what is going on
Interlude 2
(G major) (D major)
(G major) (D major) (E flat major)
(D major) (A major) (D major) (E flat major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
Verse 7
Told my baby, don't worry if I die (D major) (G major)
Darling, (D major) I know I'm gonna leave your little
bed warm (E flat major) (D major)
Don't worry if poor Lightnin' lay
down and die (G major)
'Cause I'm gon (D major) na leave
Verse 8
your little bed very warm
(D major)
You know, I can't worry when I'm dead and gone,
but one thing
Little (G major) girl, I know you is coming (D major) home
Outro 1
(D major) (E flat major) (D major) (E flat major)
(D major) (E flat major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
(E flat major) (D major) (E flat major) (D major) (A major) (D major) (A major) (D major)
Lonesome Graveyard
Lightnin' Hopkins
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