"You Won't Dig My Grave" lyrics

"You Won't Dig My Grave"

I am no weeping willow
I am no fragile flower
To be taken by the frost
Or by the lateness of the hour
I have lived in consternation
Of the road ahead for me
And despite that I can't see that far
There are some things I can see

You won't dig my grave
You won't dig my grave
I have lived among the angels
You never were that brave
You won't dig my grave
You won't dig my grave
I have been up to the mountain
There are things you can't take

From that morning by the river
Where once I touched her hem
To my midnight in the garden
Without a solitary friend
The rock of my salvation
Was the girl who took my hand
You've never been loved the way I have
You wouldn't understand

You won't dig my grave
You won't dig my grave
I have lived among the angels
You never were that brave
You won't dig my grave
You won't dig my grave
I have been up to the mountain
There are things you can't take

I'm told there's many mansions
I am not afraid to go
But the call that I am waiting on
Will not come from below
My angel suffers no fools
I am hers and she is mine
And woe betide the man who tries
To take me fore my time

You won't dig my grave
You won't dig my grave
I have lived among the angels
You never were that brave
You won't dig my grave
You won't dig my grave
I have been up to the mountain
There are things you can't take


Writer(s): Josh Ritter
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