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Thread #3436   Message #4166867
Posted By: and e
04-Mar-23 - 03:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: The worms crawl in.../Hearse Song
Subject: Lyr Add: HEARSE SONG (...worms crawl in...)
Did you ever stop to think, as the hearse rolls by,
That sooner or later both you and I
Will travel along in the selfsame hack,
With never a worry about coming back.

They'll lift you out, and they'll lower you down,
The men with their shovels will stand around;
They'll throw in some dirt, and they'll throw in some rocks,
And it will fall with a thump on your old pine box.

The worms crawl out, and the worms crawl in
They'll crawl all over your mouth and chin;
They'll call in their friends, and their friends' friends', too,
And you'll look like hell when they are through with you.


Dated 4-11-1921.   Ed Magee, reporter. From The Coopers International Journal.

See google books here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Coopers_International_Journal/IxVyPuVn3DQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq="worms+crawl+in"+"worms+crawl+out"&pg=RA1-PA217&printsec=frontcover