Mortality Blues

I remember standing at the levee

Water rolling up to my knees

Lord, won't you come and part this river?

Or teach me to swim, if you please

'Cause I can't see how some folks set their mind on dying

When I'm doing my best just to stay alive

I can't see how some folks set their mind set on dying

When I'm doing my best just to stay alive

Captain, won't you let me take it easy?

I think I'm coming down with the plague

Gotta make my way back up to Tennessee

Before the good Lord takes me away

I can't see how some folks set their mind on dying

When I'm doing my best just to stay alive

I can't see how some folks set their mind set on dying

When I'm doing my best just to stay alive

Jesus, won't you grant me some forgiveness?

'Cause I left a man dead in the field

He got in his head some suspicions

And he came with a knife after me

I can't see how some folks set their mind on dying

When I'm doing my best just to stay alive

I can't see how some folks set their mind set on dying

When I'm doing my best just to stay alive