| Old rockin' chair’s got me | 
| (Old rocking chair got you, father) | 
| Cane by my side | 
| (Your cane by your side) | 
| Fetch me that gin, son | 
| (I ain’t got no gin, father) | 
| 'Fore I tan your hide | 
| (You're gonna tan my hide) | 
| Can’t get from this cabin | 
| (Cabin, joking follow) | 
| Ain’t go nowhere | 
| (You ain’t goin' nowhere?) | 
| Just sittin' me here grabbin' | 
| (Grabbin') | 
| At the flies 'round my rockin' chair | 
| (Rockin' chair) | 
| Old dear aunt Harriet | 
| (Aunt Harriet) | 
| How long to Heaven she be? | 
| (Heaven she be) | 
| Send me a sweet chariot | 
| (Oh chariot) | 
| For the end of the trouble I see | 
| (My sweet Cherie) | 
| Old rockin' chair gets it | 
| (Rocking chair get it, father) | 
| Judgment Day is almost here | 
| (Judgment Day is here) | 
| Chained to my old | 
| (Sing it pop, sing it) | 
| Rockin' chair | 
| Old rocking chair got you, father | 
| (Yes, indeed, yes indeed, yes indeed, you got it) | 
| And your cane by your side | 
| (Can't get around no more) | 
| But I ain’t got no gin, father | 
| (Well, that’s all the sadness) | 
| Oh, you gonna tan my hide, tan my hide | 
| (Yeah, yeah get it) | 
| You can’t get from this cabin | 
| (Man, I don’t wanna go nowhere) | 
| Oh no, father, but you ain’t goin' nowhere | 
| (Aha, aha) | 
| You sittin' here grabbin', you grabbin', you grabbin' | 
| (Grabbin', grabbin') | 
| The flies 'round the old rockin' chair, rockin' chair | 
| My dear old, aunt Harriet | 
| (Yes son, how long to heaven she be?) | 
| May up in heaven she be | 
| (Yeah, you don’t like that) | 
| Oh chariot, oh chariot, chariot, chariot, chariot | 
| (Yeah I got your ride, I got your ride, got every chariot) | 
| Once again in the time of trouble, I’ve seen | 
| (Yeah, nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen) | 
| Old rockin' chair get it, rockin' chair get it | 
| (Old rockin' chair get it) | 
| And Judgment Day, oh, Judgment Day | 
| (Judgment) | 
| You sittin' here chained to your rockin' chair |