Death you're so cold, you're so cold Death will chill my bones as I'm lowered in the ground. Lived my life a thieving man heard no words the preacher said looked people down the barrel of a gun then death came and took me in both hand he shook me and told me my thieving days were done Old Bob down at the train yard hopped those freights and played cards until death passed over like a flock of birds. We found him frozen to the ground we chipped through the snow and lowered him down We prayed over his grave with some simple words I had a girl once named Denise but she had a lover named Maurice and he shot her down as I hid away I took her up into my hand she said you'll always be my lover man and she wasted as I cried my tears that day Mother did go so easily Left four children with TB And a father who liked to drink whiskey all too well Father didn't show to her last day He drank his pain away And came home that night with a whore called Lula Bell Death You're So Cold, you're so cold Death You're So Cold, you're so cold Death will chill my bones as I'm lowered to the ground