I've had my fun if I don't ever get well no more
I've had my fun if I don't ever get well no more
I know my health is failing me now 
I know I'm goin' down slow

Won't somebody write my mother and tell her the shape I'm in
I want somebody to writet my mother and tell her the shape I'm in
I want you tell her to pray for me 
Ask her to forgive me for all my sins

Mother please don't send me no doctor 
a doctor can't do me no good
I don't want you to send me no doctor now 
a doctor just can't do me no good
Back when I was a young boy oh 
I just didn't do the things I should

Mmmm Mmmmmm
Mmmm Mmmmmm