This is very similar to the Blind Alfred Reed version:


YOU'LL MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE
As recorded by the Oaks Family, 1930.

1. I'm getting old and feeble; my locks are turning gray.
My footsteps light and nimble are stiffened though today.
My voice has lost it's sweetness; my dancing days are done,
For goodness, not for greatness, you'll miss me when I'm gone.

CHORUS: You'll miss me when I'm gone; yes, you'll miss me when I'm gone.
That* one kind heart will miss me when I'm gone.
You'll miss me when I'm gone; yes, you'll miss me when I'm gone.
That* one kind heart will miss me when I'm gone.

2. What will you do without me when winter time comes on?
Who'll put their arms about you as I have often done?
Who'll mingle in your sadness when my last round is run?
Who'll share your ev'ry gladness when I to heaven have gone?

3. Go fence the little garden where we have sat for hours.
Go fence the little garden; tend all those pretty flowers.
Our children they're all married and left us here alone,
And when I'm dead and buried, you'll miss me when I'm gone.


[* He might be singing "There's one kind heart...."]