Got a letter this morning how you reckon it read

Said hurry hurry gal you love is dead

Got a letter this morning how do you reckon read

It said "hurry hurry the gal you love is dead"



Well, grabbed up my suitcase took off down the road

When I go there she was laying on the cooling board

Grabbed my suitcase and I took off down the road

Well when I got there she was laying on the cooling board



Well, walked up real close I looked down in her face

That good old gal gonna lay here till judgment day

walked real close, looking down in her face

Well she's a good ol' gal, gonna lay here till judgment day



Ohh hush, thought I heard her call my name

It wasn't so loud, so nice and plain

Mmm mmm hhmmm

Well, wasn't so loud, whoah so nice and plain



I ain't love but four women in my life

My mother and my sister, dead gal and my wife

Only loved four women in my life

Well my mother and my sister, dead gal and my wife



Look like ten thousand standing around the burial ground

Didn't know I loved her till they laid her down

Ten thousand standing around the burial ground

Well I didn't know I loved her till they began to lay her down

Laid her down