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Traditional, especially from the version by Dock Boggs
Lyrics amended by Dwayne Strohm

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What is this that I can’t see
That’s got its icy grip on me
I am Death, I’ve come to tell,
I’ll open the doors to Heaven or Hell.

Oh, Death, how can it be
That you have got your grip on me?
I have come to reap your soul
Leave your body and leave it cold.

Oh Death, oh Death, can't you spare me over another year
Oh Death, oh Death, please spare me over another year

Oh, Death, please hear me pray,
Come for me another day.
You've had your day, save your speech,
The time of mercy is out of your reach.

Oh Death, please give me time
To fix my heart and change my mind.
Your heart is fixed, your mind is bound,
I hold the shackles to drag you down.

My mother come to my bed,
Placed a cold towel upon my head.
I’ll lock your jaws so you can't talk,
I'll freeze your feet so you can't walk.

Oh, Death, how you're treating me,
you've closed my eyes so I can't see.
Yeah I closed your eyes so you can't see
The road you're doomed to travel with me.

Oh Death, please let me see
If Christ has turned his back on me.
When you were called and asked to bow,
You wouldn't take heed - it's too late now.

Too late, too late, to all farewell,
My soul is damned and summoned to hell,
As long as God in Heaven shall dwell
Your soul, your soul shall scream in hell...

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from Short Life Of Trouble, released May 9, 2022
Arranged and performed by Country Mouse

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Country Mouse are four feral forest creatures brought together by a shared love of outsider music and the unlikely coincidence of each having a body to bury. They have conspired, collaborated, and shared shovels ever since. They create low tone psychedelic doom folk with Appalachian and punk rock over and undertones. They sound best in forests and look better in the dark. ... more

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