My Baby Cares For The Dead – Daniel Johnston – letras

My baby cares for the dead, I said:Come join the living baby, the bright sunshineand it’s so great to be alive and have a good timebut my baby hung around the deadmaking money acting friendly with the funeral familyand she was wedMy baby married a rich man mama, what can I do?she cares for the dead now mama, she’ll care for youand my baby had a baby, not by me, but by himher lover who cares for the deadand that birth meant the death of our loveI know someday my baby will care for meshe’ll [bleed?] and dress me mama, real fancyand she’ll lay me in a coffincomb my hair, put marbles in my eyes, ey-eyeI know someday my baby will care for me (x6)my baby cares for the dead