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Lonesome Graveyard
Lightnin' Hopkins

Sleep on, sleep on, sleep on

Little girl, sleep on, just sleep on

Sleep on, sleep on

Little girl, just sleep on, sleep on


Well, I know you're dead, resting darling, but one day

I know the graveyard gonna be my home

Every living people got to die, human beings


Mama was rocking by the window howling

‽My poor child is dead, yes, she's dead

Yeah, you know my poor child is dead and gone”

But made me feel so good, she said this


Sleep on, sleep on, son

Do you know your mother is coming on?

The graveyard ain't too beautiful

But it will give you a home so long


I wouldn't mind dying

Poor Lightnin' would just have to lay dead so long

Wouldn't mind dying

But I'd have to lay dead so long


That I wouldn't have a chance

To come back here and tell my friends

No, nobody, what is going on


Told my baby, don't worry if I die

Darling, I know I'm gonna leave your little bed warm

Don't worry if poor Lightnin' lay down and die

'Cause I'm gonna leave your little bed very warm


You know, I can't worry when I'm dead and gone, but one thing

Little girl, I know you is coming home


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