Them's Graveyard Words Songtext
von Bessie Smith

I′ve got a man
I had for a year
But he just won't treat me right
He knocked me silly with a rocking chair

′Cause I stayed out one night
But he done got my coat
'Cause he told me to my face
That he's done bought some girl a new fur coat
And she′s done taken my place

Won′t somebody open up his eyes?
'Cause that is graveyard words
And I′ll show him before he dies
That them is graveyard words


I can see the undertaker putting flowers on doors
And a traveler going where he never come back no more
Tell him that I'll fix him sure as two and two is four
′Cause them is graveyard words

Go and tell him that he's slowly dying
Oh them is graveyard words
Please don′t let me lose my rightful mind
'Cause them is graveyard words

I done polished up my pistol
My razor's sharpened too
He′ll think the world done fell on him
When my dirty work is through
Tell him that I′ll do just what I said I'd do
Oh them is graveyard words