Lightnin Hopkins Lonesome Graveyard Lyrics

Lonesome Graveyard Lyrics

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.