HOw about Marty Robbins' "El Paso" It starts in with the narrator using the past tense
...
Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl

...
Switches to present: ...

It's been so long since I've seen the young maiden
My love is stronger than my fear of death
...
Back to past . . .
.
I saddled up and away I did go
Riding alone in the dark
...
Present....

Maybe tomorrow a bullet will find me
Tonight nothing's worse than this pain in my heart

present, some time later...

And at last here I am on the hill overlooking El Paso
I can see Rosa's cantina below
My love is strong and it pushes me onward
Down off the hill to Felina I go

Off to my right I see five mounted cowboys
Off to my left ride a dozen or more
Shouting and shooting, I can't let them catch me
I have to make it to Rosa's back door

Something is dreadfully wrong, for I feel
A deep burning pain in my side
Though I am trying to stay in the saddle
I'm getting weary, unable to ride
But my love for Felina is strong and I rise where I've
fallen
Though I am weary I can't stop to rest
I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle
I feel the bullet go deep in my chest
. . .
Present, after being shot and before dying

From out of nowhere Felina has found me
Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side
Cradled by two loving arms that I'll die for
One little kiss, then Felina goodbye.

So from which side of the grave is the song?