"Take My Soul" lyrics

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Lordy please have mercy
I know that I've done wrong
These chains around my ankles
Cut the skin right from my bones
Blood and sweat is flowing
From my poor old aching back
Boss's whip a cracking
While I swing this old pick axe

Can you please forgive me?
Lordy, won't you take this poor boy home?

Let me tell you of my tale
I was drunk and out of mind
Fought a man about a woman
That's when I took his life
The mob was there to string me
From a hangin' tree
Sheriff well, he locked me up
And threw away the key

I wish that I could take back
Everything that I done wrong
I'll spend my dying' days
Spend my dying days where I belong
I'll live my dying' days
Singing the same old song

Take my soul
Take my soul
Take my soul
Take my soul

20 years have passed me
My skin is parched and dry
Inside these hard forbidden walls
I'll live until I die
These hands are scarred with blisters
My body old and grey
Each night I get down on my knees
Hang my head and pray

Can you please forgive me?
Lordy, won't you take this poor boy home? Yeah
I'll spend my dying' days
Spend my dying days where I belong
I'll live my dying' days
Singing the same old song

Take my soul (Lordy take my soul)
Take my soul (Forgive me when I'm gone)
Take my soul (Take my soul away)
Take my soul (I know I did you wrong)
Take my soul
Take my soul
Take my soul
Take my soul