Lyrics copied from a blog and compared with several samples:


NO HEADSTONE ON MY GRAVE
Charlie Rich

1. Don't put no headstone on my grave
'Cause all my life I've been a slave.
I don't want the world to know*
Here lies the man** that loved you so.

2. Don't send no flowers when I'm gone.
Just put me down and then move on.
Just put me down and let me be,
Free from all this misery.

3. And tell my mother not to cry
'Cause I'll see her in the by and by.
Tell her that I'm finally free
From all the trouble you've caused me.***

REPEAT 1, 3, 1.

[*Jerry Lee Lewis sang "I want the whole wide world to know"
**Esther Phillips sang "fool"
***Jerry Lee Lewis sang:

3. Mama, mama, don't you cry.
I'm gonna meet you by and by.
Tell papa I'm coming home.
Lord, it can't be very long.]