[ti:Fixin' To Die Blues]
[ar:Bukka White]
[al:Bottleneck Blues Anthology]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Fixin' To Die Blues - Bukka White
[00:10.12]I'm lookin' funny in my eyes
[00:12.40]And I believe I'm fixin' to die
[00:14.78]Believe I'm fixin' to die
[00:17.22]I'm lookin' funny in my eyes
[00:20.42]Now I believe I'm fixin' to die yeah
[00:26.17]
[00:27.39]I know I was born to die
[00:29.24]But I hate to leave my children around cryin'
[00:33.14]Yeah
[00:36.52]Just as sho' we live
[00:37.97]It's a sho' we's born to die
[00:40.68]Sho' we's born to die
[00:43.00]Just as sho's we live
[00:46.76]Sho' we's born to die
[00:48.79]Yeah
[00:49.64]
[00:53.53]I know I was born to die
[00:55.31]But I hate to leave my children around cryin'
[00:57.72]Yeah
[00:59.42]
[01:02.42]Yo mother treated me children
[01:04.19]Like I was her baby child
[01:06.91]Was her baby child
[01:09.06]Yo mother treated me
[01:11.80]Like I was her baby child
[01:15.69]
[01:17.09]That's why's I sighed
[01:18.59]Sighed so hard
[01:19.75]And come back home to die
[01:22.15]Yeah
[01:25.95]So many nights at the fireside
[01:28.01]How my chillen's mother would cry
[01:30.19]How my chillen's mother would cry
[01:32.58]So many nights at the fireside
[01:35.99]How my chillen's mother would cry
[01:38.48]Yeah
[01:40.53]'Cause I told the mother I had to say goodbye
[01:47.09]Look over yon-der
[01:49.25]On the buryin' ground
[01:51.14]On the buryin' ground
[01:53.20]Look over yonder on the burying ground
[01:59.76]
[02:00.30]Yon' stand ten thousand
[02:02.42]Standin' still to let me down
[02:05.27]Yeah
[02:06.88]
[02:17.84]Mother take my chillen back
[02:19.74]Before they let me down
[02:22.02]Before they let me down
[02:23.48]Mother take my chillen back
[02:27.45]'Fore they let me down
[02:31.87]Ain't no need a-them screamin' an cryin'
[02:34.09]On the graveyard ground