I got a letter this morning
This is the way my letter read
I got a letter this morning
This is the way my letter read
Say you better come home Muddy Water
Tell me your baby's dead

I start to write
But I believe I'll go myself
Start to write a letter
But I believe I'll go myself
You know a letter too slow
Telegram don't get there

Said I wasn't goin'
To my baby's buryin' ground (tell me what you mean man?)
I said I wasn't goin'
To my baby's buryin' ground
I was standin' right thеre
When the gravе-digger let her down

Church-bell was tonin'
My muddy hearse was drivin' slow (how do you say it? how do you say it?)
Church-bell was tonin'
My muddy hearse was drivin' slow
Got to be there were Rushin' Day(?)
When I see my baby's face anymore