Fixin' To Die Blues - Bukka White

Artist: Bukka White
Album: The Complete Sessions 1930-1940
Label: Travelin' Man
Year: 1976
Song Title: Fixin' To Die Blues
Duration: 02:52
Track #: 11


Fixin' To Die Blues

I'm lookin' funny in my eyes and I believe I'm fixin' to die, believe I'm fixin' to die,
I'm lookin' funny in my eyes and I believe I'm fixin' to die,
I know I was born to die but I hate to leave my children cryin'.

Just as sho' as we livin', just as sho' we born to die, sho' we born to die,
Just as sho' as we livin', sho' we born to die,
I know I was born to die but I hate to leave my children cryin'.

Your mother treated me, children, like I was her baby child, was her baby child,
Your mother treated me like I was her baby child,
That's why's I find it so hard to come back home to die.

So many nights at the fireside, how my children's mother would cry, how my children's mother would cry,
So many nights at the fireside, how my children's mother would cry,
'Cause I told the mother I had to say goodbye.

Look over yonder on the burying ground, on the burying ground,
Look over yonder on the burying ground,
Yon' stand ten thousand, standin' still to let me down.

(guitar solo)

Mother take my children back before they let me down, before they let me down,
Mother take my children back 'fore they let me down,
I don't need for them to screamin' and cryin' on the graveyard ground.