Goin' Down Slow

by James Oden

I have had my fun,

If I don’t ever get well no more.

I have had my fun,

If I don’t ever get well no more.

I know my health is failin me now,

And I know that I’m goin down slow.

Won’t somebody write my mother,

And tell her the shape I’m in.

I want somebody to write my mother,

And tell her the shape I’m in.

I want you to 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 young boy, ya’ll,

I just didn’t do the things that I should.