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 youre 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