The Promise True And Grand-Bukka White

[ti:Fixin' To Die Blues] [ar:Bukka White] [al:Bottleneck Blues Anthology] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Promise True And Grand - Bukka White [00:10.12]I'm lookin' funny in my eyes [00:12.40]And I believe I'm fixin' to die [00:14.78]Believe I'm fixin' to die [00:17.22]I'm lookin' funny in my eyes [00:20.42]Now I believe I'm fixin' to die yeah [00:26.17] [00:27.39]I know I was born to die [00:29.24]But I hate to leave my children around cryin' [00:33.14]Yeah [00:36.52]Just as sho' we live [00:37.97]It's a sho' we's born to die [00:40.68]Sho' we's born to die [00:43.00]Just as sho's we live [00:46.76]Sho' we's born to die [00:48.79]Yeah [00:49.64] [00:53.53]I know I was born to die [00:55.31]But I hate to leave my children around cryin' [00:57.72]Yeah [00:59.42] [01:02.42]Yo mother treated me children [01:04.19]Like I was her baby child [01:06.91]Was her baby child [01:09.06]Yo mother treated me [01:11.80]Like I was her baby child [01:15.69] [01:17.09]That's why's I sighed [01:18.59]Sighed so hard [01:19.75]And come back home to die [01:22.15]Yeah [01:25.95]So many nights at the fireside [01:28.01]How my chillen's mother would cry [01:30.19]How my chillen's mother would cry [01:32.58]So many nights at the fireside [01:35.99]How my chillen's mother would cry [01:38.48]Yeah [01:40.53]'Cause I told the mother I had to say goodbye [01:47.09]Look over yon-der [01:49.25]On the buryin' ground [01:51.14]On the buryin' ground [01:53.20]Look over yonder on the burying ground [01:59.76] [02:00.30]Yon' stand ten thousand [02:02.42]Standin' still to let me down [02:05.27]Yeah [02:06.88] [02:17.84]Mother take my chillen back [02:19.74]Before they let me down [02:22.02]Before they let me down [02:23.48]Mother take my chillen back [02:27.45]'Fore they let me down [02:31.87]Ain't no need a-them screamin' an cryin' [02:34.09]On the graveyard ground