Lyrics 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 and resting darling, but one day
I know the graveyard's 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
(What made me feel so good, she said this:)
Sleep on, sleep on son,
Do you know your mother is coming on?
Whoa the graveyard ain't too beautiful,
But it will give you a home so long.
I wouldn't mind dying,
Po′ 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 po' Lightnin' lay down and die,
′Cause I′m gonna leave your little bed very warm
Whoa you know, I can't worry when I′m dead and gone, but one thing,
Little girl, I know you is coming home.