BURYING GROUND
Rec. July 12, 1949 in Chicago, IL;
Muddy Waters, voc, g; Ernest "Big" Crawford, b
Aristocrat unissued
I got a letter this nomin'
This is the way my letter read
Hey man, come on home Muddy Waters
They tell me your baby's dead
I said I wasn't going
To my baby's burying ground
No, I ain't going
To my baby's burying ground
Well you know,
I was standin' right there child
When the gravedigger let her down
"Yeah, men!"
Church bell was tollin'
My nan the hearse was drivin' slow
Well you know I got to be with a ...
When I see my baby's face anymore
