Please Don't Bury Me (Live)

[Intro]

This is a song about giving different parts of your body away

After you're dead

If you're still around, talk back

[Verse 1]

I woke up this morning, I put on my slippers

I walked in the kitchen and died

And oh, what a feeling when my soul went through the ceiling

And on up into heaven I did ride

[Verse 2]

When I got there they did say, "John, it happened this a-way

You slipped upon the floor and hit your head

And all the angels say just before you passed away

These were the very last words that you said"

[Chorus]

Please don't bury me down in thе cold cold ground

No, I'd druther have 'em cut mе up and pass me all around

Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes

And the deaf can take both of my ears, if they don't mind the size

[Verse 3]

Give my stomach to Milwaukee if they run out of beer

Put my socks in a cedar box, just get 'em out of here

Venus de Milo can have my arms, look out, I've got your nose

Sell my heart to the junkman and give my love to Rose

[Chorus]

But please don't bury me down in that cold cold ground

No, I'd druther have 'em cut me up and pass me all around

And throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes

And the deaf can take both of my ears, if they don't mind the size

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 4]

Give my feet to the footloose, careless, fancy free

Give my knees to the needy, don't pull that stuff on me

Hand me down my walking cane, it's a sin to tell a lie

Send my mouth way down south and kiss my ass goodbye

[Chorus]

But please don't bury me down in that cold cold ground

No, I'd druther have 'em cut me up and pass me all around

Throw my brain in a hurricane and the blind can have my eyes

And the deaf can take both of my ears, if they don't mind the size

[Outro]

Thank you so much