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Cemetery Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins

Poor grandpa, he died but that's the debt we all got to pay

Yeah, we livin' now but every livin' people done, whoa Lord, he gotta died one day

Lord I followed the hearse down to the burial ground,

See four men when they let poor grandpa down

Yes I followed the hearse down to the burial ground,

See four men when they let poor grandpa down

- couldn't stand it, mercy, Lord -

Yes you know it hurtin' me so bad, till I almost had a nervous breakdown

Yes she know it was sad when we got back home, po' Grandma

That's who I felt sorry for, and myself too in a way

When we got back home, this is what Grandma say

She: Son, where's my bonnet and she had it on her head

You know it was sad time, sad time when grandpa died

Whoa, we didn't have no place to go

Grandma said your good times is over, Grandpa is gone

You'll never have no good times no more.


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