If I Died

If I died on the bayou

When the Sun is going down

Would you float me like Moses

So they don't put me in the cold, hard ground

Would you gather the [?]

And make a basket for me

And open my eyes and loosen the ties

And then set me free

If I died on the rails

The last southbound

Would you ask the conductor

To slow it on down, down, down

Chase that carriage

The girl that you call

It felt well, ring that bell

To make it my last stop

If I died on the mountain

Far from my home

Would you carry me down

Take a load of my weary bones

Tell all my family

There's nothing they need to bring

Well I left my life toil and strife

But I died in peace