Gravedigger Blues

[00:02.82] Saw the head off a scarecrow,
[00:04.73] Burn its eyes with lead.
[00:06.69] Make a crown of barbed wire,
[00:08.08] Leave it under your bed.
[00:10.17] I'll come running with a heart on fire...
[00:13.15] I'll come running with a heart on fire...
[00:16.90] I'll come running with a heart on fire...
[00:21.13] And baby, you can dig my grave.
[00:24.74] Baby, you can dig my grave.
[00:28.06] Take a beet and a pole beam,
[00:30.29] Rotting, wrapped in hay.
[00:31.88] Spit into the middle,
[00:33.80] Cover it with clay.
[00:35.19] I'll come running with a heart on fire...
[00:38.76] I'll come running with a heart on fire...
[00:42.34] I'll come running with a heart on fire...
[00:46.59] I wonder what made you stay.
[00:50.09] I wonder what made me stray.
[00:53.93] Baby's got a jar of cider,
[00:57.40] Used for making hearts melt.
[01:01.36] Baby knows chicken wire,
[01:04.39] Don't make no chastity belt.
[01:08.07] Drive a stake into the river,
[01:10.29] Cap it with a bone.
[01:12.14] Hear that blackbird calling,
[01:14.00] Be my tombstone.
[01:15.71] Now I'm running with a heart on fire...
[01:19.09] Now I'm running with a heart on fire...
[01:22.11] I'm running with a heart on fire...
[01:26.52] And baby, you can lick the flames.
[01:29.90] Baby, you can lick the flames.
[01:33.73] Baby's got my heart's desire,
[01:37.25] Swinging from her trophy belt.
[01:41.00] Baby knows a funeral pyre,
[01:44.12] Don't get put out with no beaver pelt.
[01:47.62] Dig a sack of potatoes,
[01:50.05] Throw it in my grave.
[01:52.02] Fill it full of buckshot,
[01:54.16] Just count the days...
[01:55.50] I'll come running with a heart on fire...
[01:58.69] I'll come running with a heart on fire...
[02:01.45] I'll come running with a heart on fire...
[02:06.28] And baby, you'll make me pay.
[02:10.09] Baby, you'll make me pay.
[02:13.85] And baby, you'll be digging my grave...
[02:17.54] Baby, I'm just counting the days.
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