The "Hearse Song" has been one that I have been trying to find the words to for some time. My aunt who was English with a fine sense of humour told me some words when I was a boy. She said it was sung to the tune of the old Laurel and Hardy theme song. I don't know if Laurel and Hardy intended it to be their theme but it might be.

The words are: (with a Cockney accent of course)

Did ya ever watch the 'earse go by
and think that someday you're gonna die

They put ya in a wooden box
and cover ya up with dirt and rocks.

The worms go in; the worms go out
they crawl in your ear and come out your snout

I do not know the other stanzas but assume there must be many. It is also interesting to compare this snatch with the song by Niles, Moore and Walgren of 1929. My aunt would have been just married and immigrated to Canada about this time. Is this a folk ditty from England which transmutated into a song by Niles et. al. or is it someones faulty memory reciting a snippet of something remembered?