Don't Make Me Go To Bed

	  		st FRET  KEY: (Eb)  PLAY: (D) 

(A D) laughing baby boy one (G) evening in his (E) play 
Dis-(A7) turbed the household with his noisy (D) glee (A7) 
I (D) warned him to be quiet but he (G) soon would diso-(E) bey 
For (A7) he would soon forget a word from (D) me 
 
I called him to my side and said, "Now son you go to bed 
Your conduct has been very, very rude" 
With quivering lips and tear filled eyes he pleaded then with me 
"Don't Make Me Go To Bed And I'll Be Good." 
(D) Don't Papa and I'll be (A7) good 
Don't Papa and I'll be (D) good" 
That's what I heard him say and it (G) haunts me night and (E) day 
"Don't (A7) Make Me Go To Bed And I'll Be (D) Good." 

Our lives have just been gladdened by his bright ascending beam 
Our boy now in our hearts was very dear 
We hastened to his bed one night he was talking in his sleep 
He didn't seem to know that we were near. 
 
I took him in my arms and found his body "raked" with pain 
To ease the pain we did the best we could 
It broke my heart to hear him cryin' loudly in his sleep 
"Don't Make Me Go To Bed And I'll Be Good." 
 
All night and day we watched and prayed, we never left his side 
To give him up it seemed we never could 
It broke my heart to hear him crying just before he died 
"Don't Make Me Go To Bed And I'll Be Good." 
 
CHORUS 
 
Note.  Roy Acuff's Greatest Hits - Volume Two 
       1979 Electra/Asylum Records 9E-303