Dear Lone Stranger: read the lines again:

"I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen
All wrapped in white line as cold as the clay."

It was the LINEN that was cold - - - - NOT the cowboy.

I've heard corpses "groan" as air in the lungs or gut escaped long after they're dead ~ and that's pretty creepy: especially when it's your first DOA and you're alone in a quiet room with him/her.

And as for YOU Foolestroupe - - GO MOME and don't do that again. That was TERRIBLE

Muttley