Death Valley Blues - Joe McCoy, Arthur ”Big Boy" Crudup

I went down in Death Valley

Among the tombstones and dry bones

That’s where poor me will be

Lord when I’m dead and gone

Now if I should die

I should die before my time

I want you to bury my body

Down by that Frisco line

Now bury me mama

Low down in the sand

Now bury me mama

Where I won’t bother your next old man

Oh bye bye baby

I said goodbye

Death Valley is my home

Mama I want to die

Tell all the women

Please come dressed in red

They going down Sixty‑One Highway

That’s where the poor boy he fell dead

Wear your patent leather slippers

Mama put out your morning gown

You going to follow poor Crudup

Down to his burying ground