See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Blind Lemon Jefferson * Track #20 On Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Three: Songs
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Album Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Three: Songs
- #1
The Coo Coo BirdClarence Ashley
- #2
East VirginiaBuell Kazee
- #3
Minglewood BluesCannon’s Jug Stompers
- #4
James Alley BluesRichard Rabbit Brown
- #5Sugar Baby
Dock Boggs
- #6
I Wish I Was a Mole in the GroundBascom Lamar Lunsford
- #7Bob Lee Junior Blues
Memphis Jug Band
- #8
Single Girl, Married GirlThe Carter Family
- #9
Le Vieux Soulard Et Sa Femme (The Old Drunkard and His Wife)Joseph Falcon
- #10
Rabbit Foot BluesBlind Lemon Jefferson
- #11Expressman Blues
Sleepy John Estes
- #12Poor Boy Blues
Ramblin’ Thomas
- #13
Feather BedCannon’s Jug Stompers
- #14
Country BluesDock Boggs
- #15
Ninety-Nine Year BluesJulius Daniels
- #16
Prison Cell BluesBlind Lemon Jefferson
- #17See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Blind Lemon Jefferson
- #18
C’Est Si Triste Sans Lui (It Is So Blue Without Him)Cleoma Breaux Falcon & Ophy Breaux & Joseph Falcon
- #19
Way Down the Old Plank RoadUncle Dave Macon
- #20Buddy Won’t You Roll Down the Line
Uncle Dave Macon
- #21
Spike Driver Blues (1928)Mississippi John Hurt
- #22
K. C. MoanMemphis Jug Band
- #23Fishing Blues
Henry Thomas
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean by Blind Lemon Jefferson
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One of Lemon’s best known songs, “See That My Is Grave Kept Clean” is an amazing and a great look into the thought of dying. Backed by a tight rhythm on his guitar, Jefferson weaves biblical imagery and paranoia into an introspective look on death and the process of burying. It was released as the b...
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Well, it's one kind favor I ask of you
Well, it's one kind favor I ask of you
Lord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you
See that my grave is kept clean
[Verse 2]
It's a long lane, ain't got no end
It's a long lane that's got no end
It's a long lane ain't got no end
And it's a bad wind that never change
[Verse 3]
Lord, it's two white horses in a line
Well, it's two white horses in a line
Well, it's two white horses in a line
Gonna take me to my buryin' ground
[Verse 4]
My heart stopped beatin' and my hands got cold
My heart stopped beatin' and my hands got cold
Well, my heart stopped beatin', Lord, my hands got cold
It wasn't long 'fore they took me to the cypress grove
[Verse 5]
Have you ever heard a coffin sound?
Have you ever heard a coffin sound?
Have you ever heard a coffin sound?
Then you know that the poor boy is in the ground
[Verse 6]
Oh, dig my grave with a silver spade
Well, dig my grave with a silver spade
Well, dig my grave with a silver spade
You may lead me down with a golden chain
[Verse 7]
Have you ever heard a church bell's tone?
Have you ever heard a church bell's tone?
Have you ever heard a church bell tone?
Then you know that the poor boy's dead and gone
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See That My Grave Is Kept Clean was written by Blind Lemon Jefferson.