Take My Soul

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Lordy, please have mercy

I know that I've done wrong

These chains around my ankles

Cut the skin right from my bones

Blood and sweat is flowin'

From my poor old achin' back

Boss's whip a crackin'

While I swing this old pick axe

Can you please forgive me?

Lordy, won't you take this poor boy home?

Let me tell you of my tale

I was drunk and out of mind

Fought a man about a woman

That's when I took his life

The mob was there to string me

From a hangin' tree

Sheriff, well, he locked me up

And threw away the key

I wish that I could take back

Everything that I done wrong

I'll spend my dyin' days

Spend my dyin' days where I belong

I'll live my dyin' days

Singing the same old song

Take my soul

Take my soul

Take my soul

Take my soul

Twenty years have passed me

My skin is parched and dry

Inside these hard forbidden walls

I'll live until I die

These hands are scarred with blisters

My body old and grey

Each night I get down on my knees

Hang my head and pray

Can you please forgive me?

Lordy, won't you take this poor boy home?

Yeah

I'll spend my dyin' days

Spend my dyin' days where I belong

I'll live my dyin' days

Singing the same old song

Take my soul

Lordy, take my soul

Take my soul

Forgive me when I'm gone

Take my soul

Take my soul away

Take my soul

I know I did you wrong

Take my soul

Take my soul

Take my soul

Take my soul