Black Crow Blues

Don't mourn your young life away

Just lower me down with a prayer and a song

Just 'fore the breaking of day

Just 'fore the breaking of day

Well, it's a life worth the living but we all gotta die

All your crying can't do me no good

Just lower me down with a quick sad goodbye

Pour in the black Texas mud

Pour in the black Texas mud

It's a hard road you're travelin', you can't walk it alone

Find a big man to stand beside you

Take him down to the river, show him my bones

Tell him there lies a friend I once knew

There lies a friend I once knew

Well, the black crow's a-screaming, the yellow sun's warm

And the grass tumbles tall down the hill

There's a cold wind building, it's bringin' a storm

When the call of the black crow goes still

When the call of the black crow goes still