Luyện nghe bài hát Sittin' Up with the Dead

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

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

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

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

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

when Uncle Fred sat up so did everybody there
and there came a great of the foldin chairs.
The nearly knocked me down, he said
"I'm headed out that door over there."
I said "Rev that kitchen got no door in it"
He said "Don't son, it will 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 didn't help to calm the situation down.
Then the lightnin' flashed and that went black
and I spoke to my I said "Boys make tracks"
and I went out that 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 he's in there asleep
and I'm jumpin' and scratchin' trying to get out of that when he says
"Might as well come over and sit down beside me boy
'cause you ain't outa here tonight."
But I did.

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

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

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