Standard (EADGBE)

Cyrus Jones eighteen-ten to nineteen-thirteen

Made his great grandchildren believe

 You could live to a hundred and three

 A hundred and three is forever when you’re just a little kid

So, Cyrus Jones live forever

Gravedigger

 When you dig my grave

 Could you make it shallow

 So that I can feel the rain

Gravedigger

Muriel Stonewall nineteen o three to nineteen fifty four

 She lost both of her babies in the second great war

 Now, you should never have to watch your only children lowered in the ground

 I mean never have to bury your own babies

Gravedigger

 When you dig my grave

 Could you make it shallow

 So that I can feel the rain

Gravedigger

Ring around the rosey

Pocket full of posey

Ashes to ashes

 We all fall down

Gravedigger

 When you dig my grave

 Could you make it shallow

 So that I could feel the rain

 Oh Gravedigger

Little Mikey Carson sixty-seven to seventy-five

 He rode his bike like the devil until the day he died

 When he grows up he wants to be Mister Vertigo on the flying trapeze

Gravedigger

 When you dig my grave

 Could you make it shallow

 So that I can feel the rain

 Oh, Gravedigger

 When you dig my grave

 Could you make it shallow

 So that I can feel the rain

I can feel the rain

 I can feel the rain

 Gravedigger

 When you dig my grave

 Could you make it shallow

 So that I can feel the rain

 Gravedigger

 Gravedigger