Townes Van Zandt - "Black Crow Blues" - Live @ Jester Lounge, Houston, Texas, 1966

Townes Van Zandt - "Black Crow Blues"
Live @ Jester Lounge, Houston, Texas, 1966

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LYRICS (this version)

Babe, don't lie lonesome after I'm gone
Don't mourn your young life away
Just bury me low with a prayer and a song
Just 'fore the breaking of day
Just 'fore the breaking of day

It's a life worth the living, but we all gotta die
All your crying can't do me no good
So lower me down with a quick said goodbye
Pour in the black Texas mud
Pour in the black Texas mud

Oh it's a funny whole world, you can't walk it alone
Find a big man to stand beside you
Take him down to the river and show him my bones
Tell him: "There lies a friend I once knew
There lies a friend I once knew"

The black crow's a-screaming, the yellow sun's warm
And the grass tumbles tall down the hill
There's a cold wind is building, it's bringin' a storm
When the call of the black crow goes still
When the call of the black crow goes still