You can hear Leslie Sarony's recording at YouTube. Here's what I think I hear:


WHY BUILD A WALL ROUND A GRAVEYARD?
As sung by Leslie Sarony on Rex 8063-B

They always build fences round gardens, of course,
To keep people out, I agree.
They always build walls round a prison because
If they didn't, well, where would they be?
With that there is nothing amiss,
But will you please tell me this:

Why build a wall round a graveyard
When nobody wants to go in?
Why build a wall round a graveyard
When nobody wants to go out?
It may be a beautiful haven of rest,
But you know that you'll be a permanent guest.
So why build a wall round a graveyard
When nobody wants to go in?

Here lies the body of Ginny McDoug.
Whilst having a bath once she slipped down the ploog.
Here lies the body of old Stoker Joe.
He was stoking up here; now he's stoking below.

Shovel on a little more coal.
Shovel on a little more coal.

Here lies a drinker, the father of ten.
He'd be with us now but he couldn't say when.
Here lies a heavyweight under the ground,
With a circular saw only lasted one round.
Here lies a butcher named Timothy White.
A nice bit of skirt quickly put out his lights.

Charlie a taxi man lies over there.
Wherever he's gone to, he'll pay his own fare.
Here's a contortionist, Filleted Pete.
He tried his best to make both his ends meet.
Minnie the milkmaid would be with us now
If she hadn't mistaken a bull for a cow.

R.I.P.
There's another good fellow gone west.
R.I.P.
With a blinking great slab on his chest.

Oh, why build a wall round a graveyard
When nobody wants to go in?
Why build a wall round a graveyard
When nobody wants to go out?
With a slab on your chest and a half-ton of clay,
The traffic is certain to be all one way,
So why build a wall round a graveyard
When nobody wants to go in?