If You Live

If You Live - Mose Allison

Well if you live

Your time will come

I say if you live

Your time will come

So child don't mess with that cotton sack

It's gonna scratch your knees and bend your back

I you live

Your live time will come

Well if you live

Your day will come

I say if you live

Your day will come

So child don't play with those pots and pans

They gonna soon enough ruin your pretty hands

And if you live

Your time will come

Well if you live

A day will come

I say if you live

A day will come

When the sun will shine and the crops will grow

And you think that you not gonna worry no more

But if you live

Your time will come

Your time will come