Burying Ground

I have been up, Lord, Lord, I've been down

Feel like I'm headed to that burying ground

I've been up, Lord, Lord, I've been down

Feel like I'm headed to that cold burying ground

I told you once, baby, I told you twice

I ain't the kind of man who'll be a sacrifice

I been bent and I been broken

So bent and broken that I didn't feel no pain

Told you once, twice, three times over

Told you there's a devil child up upon my shoulder

Don't stand in my shadow, woman, don't you shake my tree

Don't rattle my chain, girl, and don't you Judas me

So far up, Lord, so far down

Long black car to drive me to that burying ground

I've seen things could make a grown man cry

Been so high, I couldn't get no higher

Call for the doctor, I feel like I'm dying

Call for the doctor, now I know I'm bound to die

I stayed awake for six nights running

I've been awake six nights in a row

Now I can see them, six white horses

Come to take me where I sure don't wanna go

I been down, down to the jailhouse

I been down, down to the church

I been down so deep in darkness

So far down in darkness that the sun don't ever shine

I've been up, Lord, Lord, I've been down

Feel like I'm headed to that ice cold burying ground

Baby, please tell my brothers

Tell them that I'm sorry for the things that I have done

And baby, please take this letter

Take it to my father when I'm in the burying ground

I've been up, Lord, Lord, I've been down

Feel like I'm headed to that cold burying ground

I've been up, Lord, Lord, I've been down

Feel like I'm headed to that ice cold burying ground

Been up, been down

Feel like I'm headed to that burying ground

So far up, Lord, so far down

Feel like I'm headed to that ice cold burying ground