Coffin Blues

Coffin Blues - Ida Cox

Oh

Daddy oh daddy

Won't you answer me please

Oh

Daddy oh daddy

Won't you answer me please

All day I stood by your coffin

Trying to give my poor heart ease

I rubbed my hands over your head

And whispered in your ear

I rubbed my hands over your head

And whispered in your ear

And I wonder if you know

That your mama's near

Oh

Oh

Oh

Oh

Oh

Oh

You told me that you loved me

And I believed what you said

You told me that you loved me

And I believed what you said

And I wished that I could fall

Here across your coffin dead

When I left the undertakers

I couldn't help but cry

And it hurts me so bad

To tell the man I love goodbye