Death Letter Blues

Got a letter this morning How d'you reckon it read? It said hurry, hurry The girl you love is dead Got a letter this morning How d'you reckon it read? It said hurry, hurry The girl you love is dead Packed up my suitcase And went on down the road Packed up my suitcase And went on down the road When I got there She was laying on the cooling board Thought I only Loved 3 women in my life Oh my mother, my kid sister And my wife But when I saw her on the cooling board I got on my knees and cried Oh Looked like Ten Thousand people Standing around that burying ground Yeah! Yeah! Looked like Ten Thousand people Standing around that burying ground When I got there I didn't know I love her When I got there I didn't know I love her And I didn't know I love here 'Til they lay her in the ground *Train whistle slide*