Luyện nghe bài hát Sittin' Up with the Dead

Well out in the country we have mortuaries
and so it was always
For the to do his job
and lay kin out there at home.

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

The last time I sat up was '65 when my old Uncle Fred died
he was 97 and so over the morticians couldn't straighten him out.
They used a loggin' chain to hold him down
and covered that all up a cape and a gown
And didn't tell in the family
'cause that's the of thing folks just don't want to know about

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

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

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

Then somebody on the old cat's 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 spoke to my feets I "Boys make tracks"
and I went out screen door lickety split for town.

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

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

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

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