I suppose you could lay me down to die in Illinois   Bury me beneath the rows of corn   Or in-between the maple trees I climbed on as a boy   Where in the Land of Lincoln I was born      Oh, and I recall   We rode the combines in the fall   And there comes a time    For gathering the harvest after all      So when you lay me down to die   I’ll miss my boys, I’ll miss my girls   Lay me down and let me say goodbye to this world   You can lay me anywhere   But just remember this   When you lay me down to die   You lay me down to live   Well I asked a girl to marry me on a dock out on the lake   Our babies came to life in Tennessee   And the music of the mountains is still keeping me awake   Yeah, but everything that rises falls asleep      We are not alone   We are more than flesh and bone   What is seen will pass away   What is not is going home      When you lay me down to die   I’ll miss my boys, I’ll miss my girls   Lay me down and let me say goodbye to this world   You can lay me anywhere   But just remember this   When you lay me down to die      I’ll open up my eyes on the skies I’ve never known   In the place where I belong   And I’ll realize His love is just another word for Home      I believe in the holy shores of uncreated light   I believe there is power in the blood   And all of the death that ever was,   If you set it next to life   I believe it would barely fill a cup   ‘Cause I believe there’s power in the blood      When you lay me down to die   So long, boys, so long, girls   Lay me down and let me say goodbye to this world   You can lay me anywhere   But just remember this   When you lay me down to die   You lay me down to live