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Canon F1 / 135mm

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Bukka White

 

 

I'm lookin' funny in my eyes,

believe I'm fixin' to die,

believe I'm fixin' to die

I'm lookin' funny in my eyes

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 leavin' my children cryin'

 

Your mother treated me children like I

was her baby child,

was her baby child

your mother treated me like I

was her baby child

That's why I find it so hard

to come back home to die

 

So many nights at the fireside,

how my children's mother would cry,

how my children's mother would cry

So many nights at the fireside,

how my children's mother would cry

cause I ain't told their mother

I had to say good-bye

 

Look over yonder,

on the burying ground,

on the burying ground

Look over yonder,

on the burying ground

Yon' stand ten thousand,

standin' still to let me down

 

Mother take my children back,

before they let me down,

before they let me down

Moma take my children back,

'fore they let me down

I don't need for them screamin' & cryin'

on the graveyard ground

 

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Uploaded on February 23, 2011
Taken on February 22, 2011