White Satin Bed

Hangin' on to every nickel and every dime

Never had a dollar to call mine.

I gotta work tomorrow

Just to pay for the day

Well, I worked all that I can stand

Now I long for the day.

Then I can sleep in my white satin bed

With a red velvet pillow for my head

They'll lower me into my grave with ropes of gold and braid

And I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed.

Well, I never had no soft warm bed before

Just a cold park bench or a boxcar floor

Thumbin' north to the coal mines or south to cotton fields

Oh hangin' on, it won't be long till I'll know how it feels.

To sleep in my white satin bed.

With a red velvet pillow for my head

They'll lower me into my grave with ropes of gold and braid

And I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed.

Yes, I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed...