Luyện nghe bài hát Sittin' Up with the Dead

Well out in the country we didn't mortuaries
and so it was customary
For the to do his job
and lay your kin out at home.

Well the church would loan ya chairs
and have visitation and everything right there
and when the nighttime come you had to sit up the dead
'cause it wasn't right to them alone.

The last time I sat up was '65 my old arthritic Uncle Fred died
he was 97 and so stooped over the morticians straighten him out.
They used a loggin' chain to hold him down
and covered that all up a cape and a gown
And tell nobody in the family
'cause that's the kind of thing folks just don't to know about

Well we were all there it was 3 in the mornin'
When there come up a cloud, a thunderin lightnin' and
The flashed and the thunder clapped
and the chain old Uncle Fred went 'snap'
and rattled and to the floor with a thump
and Uncle Fred sat right up.

Well I ain't sittin' up with the dead no more, I know 'bout you
I ain't sittin' up with the dead no more no what ya say or do.
They say the dead can't hurt ya cause they already
but what they left can sure make ya yourself.
And I ain't sittin up with the dead no more since the started sittin up too.

when Uncle Fred sat up so did everybody there
and came a great partin' of the foldin chairs.
The preacher knocked me down, he said
"I'm out that kitchen door over there."
I "Rev that kitchen ain't got no door in it"
He said "Don't son, it will have in minute."
And I ain't never seen so much and shovin' before.

Then somebody stepped on the old tail
it let out a scream, a screech, a
and to say the least that didn't to calm the situation down.
the lightnin' flashed and that house went black
and I to my feets I said "Boys make tracks"
and I went out screen door lickety split for town.

Well I cut through the cemetary, in a hole.
It was Uncle grave and it was dark and cold.
Well the drunk dug it and he dug it too deep
and unbeknownst to me he's still in asleep
and I'm jumpin' and scratchin' to get out of that hole when he says
"Might as well over here and sit down beside me boy
you ain't gettin' outa here tonight."
But I did.

And I ain't sittin up with the dead no more, I don't know you.
Well I ain't sittin' up with the dead no more no matter ya say or do
They say the dead can't hurt ya 'cause they left
but they left can sure make you hurt yourself.
And I ain't sittin up with the dead no more since the dead sittin up too.

Wasn't no sense in sittin' up with Uncle Fred anyhow... Uncle Fred done gonna be sittin' up his OWN self.

Next time I'm just send flowers... yeah...