Lonesome Graveyard Lyrics - 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 

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(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. 

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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.