Patty Griffin - Don’t Let Me Die In Florida lyrics

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(Chorus)

Please don’t let me die in Florida,

I don’t care about my name.

If you catch me dying in Daytona

Roll my bed on to a train.

(Verse)

I was born in Indian summer,

In the South End long ago.

And those dirty streets cried out for rain

And this is what I know.

And the rains came and they only stopped

Just in time for snow.

And the icy cold filled up my shoes

And this is what I know.

(Chorus)

Please don’t let me die in Florida,

I don’t care about my name.

If you catch me dying in Orlando

Roll my bed on to a train.

(Bridge)

(Verse)

Well I went to war to fight the Japs

When the war was over

I threw my cap

Just as far as you could throw a thing

I went home and gave my girl a ring.

I put the highways and the black top down

Turned the prairies into the towns

And those hills gave way just like a wedding gown

I put the highways and the black top down.

(Bridge)

(Verse)

I don’t need to see no mirror,

I ain’t never gonna see my own face,

Just a reflection of somebody

Who’s gonna leave without a trace.

Roll me over over them hills so old and proud

Let the night come in and lay my shroud

I ain’t never been to Cal-i-forn-aye-ay

Maybe that’s where I should end my days.

(Chorus)

Please don’t let me die in Florida

I don’t care about my name.

If you catch me dying in Orlando

Roll my bed on to a train.

Thanks to Bill McKern for correcting these lyrics