Songtext Sittin' up with the dead von Ray Stevens

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Box set

2006

01. It's me again, margaret
02. Too drunk to fish
03. Freudian slip
04. Sittin' up with the dead
05. Everything is beautiful
06. Power tools
07. Drivers education
08. Hang up and drive
09. Ahab the arab
10. The ballad of the blue cyclone / the beginning
11. Blue angel
12. The ballad of the blue cyclone / the end?
13. Pledging my love
14. The woogie boogie
15. Love will beat your brains out
16. The haircut song
17. The streak
18. The mississippi squirrel revival
19. Family funeral fight
20. Deerslayer
21. Safe at home
22. Boogie woogie
23. Virgil and the moonshot
24. The hustler
25. Osama yo' mama
26. Hello mama
27. Let's roll
28. We're havin' a baby
29. When the kids are gone
30. Turn your radio on
31. Kitty cat's revenge
32. Juanita & the kids
33. Thank you
34. Shriner's convention
35. Nashville
36. Erik the awful
37. The dog song
38. The cat song
39. The pirate song
40. Come on home to baseball
41. Gitarzan
42. Bridget the midget
43. Bon temps roulette
44. Freddie feelgood / and his funky little five piece band
45. Gone for good
46. Stand up
47. The king of christmas
48. Be your own best friend

Sittin' up with the dead

Well out in the country we didn't have mortuaries
and so it was always customary
to lay the dead out right there at home.
Well the church would loan ya foldin' chairs
abd you'd have visitation and everything right there
and when the nighttime come you had to sit up with the dead
'cause it wasn't right to leave them alone.
The last time I sat up was in '65 when my old arthritic Uncle Fred died
he was so stooped over the morticians couldn't straighten him out.
They used used a loggin' chain to tie him down
and covered that all up with a cape and a gown
'cause that's the kind of thing folks just don't want to know about
Well we were all sittin' there it was 3 in the mornin'
When there come up a cloud, a thunderin lightnin' and stromin'
The lightnin' flashed and the house went black
and the chain 'round old Uncle Fred went 'snap'
and rattled and fell to the floor with a thump
and Uncle Fred just sat right up.
Well I ain't sittin' up with the dead no more, I don't know 'bout you
I ain't sittin' up with the dead no more no matter what ya say or do.
They say the dead can't hurt ya cause they already left
but what they left can sure make ya hurt yourself.
And I ain't sittin up with the dead no more since the dead started sittin up too.
Well when Fred sat up so did everybody there
and there came a great partin' of the foldin chairs.
The preacher nearly knocked me down, he said
"I'm headed out that kitchen door over there."
I said "Rev that kitchen ain't got no door in it"
He said "Don't worry son, it will have in minute."
And I ain't never seen so much jumpin' and shovin' before.
Then somebody stepp

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Well out in the country we didn't have mortuaries
and so it was always customary
to lay the dead out right there at home.
Well the church would loan ya foldin' chairs
abd you'd have visitation and everything right there
and when the nighttime come you had to sit up with the dead 
'cause it wasn't right to leave them alone.
The last time I sat up was in '65 when my old arthritic Uncle Fred died
he was so stooped over the morticians couldn't straighten him out.
They used used a loggin' chain to tie him down
and covered that all up with a cape and a gown
'cause that's the kind of thing folks just don't want to know about
Well we were all sittin' there it was 3 in the mornin'
When there come up a cloud, a thunderin lightnin' and stromin'
The lightnin' flashed and the house went black
and the chain 'round old Uncle Fred went 'snap'
and rattled and fell to the floor with a thump
and Uncle Fred just sat right up.
Well I ain't sittin' up with the dead no more, I don't know 'bout you
I ain't sittin' up with the dead no more no matter what ya say or do.
They say the dead can't hurt ya cause they already left
but what they left can sure make ya hurt yourself.
And I ain't sittin up with the dead no more since the dead started sittin up too.
Well when Fred sat up so did everybody there
and there came a great partin' of the foldin chairs.
The preacher nearly knocked me down, he said
"I'm headed out that kitchen door over there."
I said "Rev that kitchen ain't got no door in it"
He said "Don't worry son, it will have in minute."
And I ain't never seen so much jumpin' and shovin' before.
Then somebody stepp