Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 02:39 PM

I read a book recently about the people who worked in the cotton mills..they used to line up at the window on their breaks and take turns getting a breath of real air. mg

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 08:03 PM

Likewise, in "Chevaliers de la Table Ronde",

Si je meurs, je veux qu'on m'enterre
Dans la cave o`u il y a du bon vin.

...

Les deux pieds contre la muraille
Et la t^ete sous le robinet.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 10:59 PM

The Lightning Bar    Arlo Guthrie

CHORUS:
I don't need no diamond ring
I don't need no Cadillac car
Just want to drink my Ripple wine
Down in the Lightnin' Bar
Down in the Lightnin' Bar

Some people value fortune and fame
I don't care about 'em none
Just want to drink my Ripple wine
I want to have my good time fun
Have my good time fun

CHORUS

When I die don't cry for me
Don't bury me at all
Place my livin', laughin', lovin' bones
In a jar of alcohol
Hundred proof alcohol

CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: GUEST,Ed Caines
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 09:00 AM

We (Tickler's Jam) used to sing this in the 70s and recently revived it in another group. We pair it with The Last Long Mile. Both British 1st World War songs but clearly there was an older connection. Our version was very like the Mansfield FC and its nice to know it lives on. I think we found it is the Daily Express (or some other newspaper's) "community song book" probably published in the 20s.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: oldhippie
Date: 06 Apr 13 - 11:04 AM

In the DT, "Send Me To Glory In A Glad Bag"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: Uke
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 04:03 AM

The versions below comes from "Tararua Song Book", a New Zealand tramping club songbook, compiled ca.1943. Interestingly, it's quite close to the Australian version above given by Bob Bolton:

When Moses was a little child
He floated down the river Nile,
And Pharaoh's daughter found home there,
And he was playing with a bottle of beer.

'Come, choose you now, 'twixt beer and me,'
Said Pharoah's daughter haughtily,
And Moses answered with a sigh,
'I guess I got to bid the booze goodbye.'

'So goodbye booze, don't want you no more,
My drinking days are nearly o'er.
We've had good times you can't deny,
So goodbye booze, I'm going to die.'

'And when I die, don't bury me at all
Just pickle my bones in alcohol.
Put a bottle of beer at my head and feet,
And then I know my bones will keep.'


The 1971 edition of "Tararua Song Book" has another last verse:

'And when I die, don't bury me at all
Just pickle my bones in alcohol.
Put a bottle of beer at my feet and head,
And if I don't move, you'll know I'm dead.'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: GUEST,Larry Saidman
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 12:18 PM

Joe suggested Rake and Rambling Boy.....and the Joan Baez version went through my head when I read the title of the thread.

Oh when I die don't bury me at all
place my bones in alcohol
and at my feet place a snow white dove
to let the world know I died for love.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: PHJim
Date: 07 Apr 13 - 01:20 PM

I recall from somewhere these words:

Well, when I die don't bury me at all
Just pickle my bones in alcohol
Put a marble slab at my head and feet
And tell them all I've gone to sleep

Sam Doores & Alynda Lee Segarra call their version "Rich And A Ramblin' Boy" and they sing:

Now when I die don't bury me at all
Just place me away in alcohol
My 44, lie at my feet
Tell everyone I'm just asleep.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: GUEST,Sjp319
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 04:05 PM

Oh, when I die, don't you bury me at all
Just pickle my bones in alcohol.
Oh when I die, if I go down below
I'll meet the girl that I used to know
Oh when I die, if I go up above
I'll meet the girl that I used to love.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: GUEST,bobm
Date: 04 Jul 15 - 08:53 AM

Strangely I was taught this song at the age of 10 in the mid 1960's when I used to belong to a sort of cub scout group called the Woodcraft Folk! It was a call and response song with our leader singing a line which the group then repeated back.

The ending is slightly different to those above

And when I die
Don't bury me at all
Just pickle my bones in alcohol

Put a bottle of booze
At my feet and my head
And if I don't move
You'll know I'm dead

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: When I die, don't bury me at all...
From: GUEST,shunter
Date: 25 Aug 15 - 03:35 AM

When I die, don't bury me at all
Just rest my bones in alcohol

Upon my chest, lay a bottle of the best
Tell all my friends ive gone to rest

Cos were all teetotal singing as we go
To the promised land where the wine and whisky flows

You can tell us by the colour of of our noise
We belong to the tartan army !