Send My Body - 2021 Remaster

Well, the judge he found me guilty of wrongdoing

And he sentenced me to hang in mid-July

He looked down at me and said, "Your life's a ruin

If I were you I'd break right down and cry"

Well, nobody seems to care that I ain't guilty

Lord, I never did the things they said I've done

But I guess they're gonna have to hang somebody

And it's looking like I'm gonna be the one

So send my body home on a freight train

And don't worry none that I don't go first class

Send my body home on a freight train

So everyone can see me when I pass

And don't worry none about no fancy funeral

'Cause it don't matter how they lay me down

Just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree

And send my body back to my hometown

Well, my mama was a damn hard-working woman

And she tried to raise us kids without a pa

Last thing that she said, she was on her dying bed

Was, "Son, don't get in trouble with the law"

Whenever my time comes to meet my maker

I'm gonna try to do my very best

I'm gonna try to stand and take it like a man

When they ask if I have one request

Well, I'll just say send my body home on a freight train

And don't worry none that I don't go first class

Send my body home on a freight train

So everyone can see me when I pass

And don't worry none about no fancy funeral

'Cause it don't matter how they lay me down

Just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree

And send my body back to my hometown

Yeah, just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree

And send my body back to my hometown