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When People Are Dead Lyrics
Ten days after Uncle died
We three cleaned the house
Our auntie just sat there & cried
Our mother said, "Cheer her up"
So we ran upstairs & sat on her bed
They said you bury the dead
What's bury?
Rosie said, "Something you do
When people are dead."
Played cat & mouse games for an hour
Jimmy went down & picked her a flower
Rosie said prayers & sang her a psalm
Then our mother said we'd been there too long
We left her alone for a little while more
Then a commotion: a hearse at the door!
They said you bury the dead
What's bury?
Rosie said, "Something you do
When people are dead."
Rosie & Jimmy ran away scared
A man with a hat & long black clothes
Entered the room
In a dark somber pose
With two of our uncles shoulder-to-shoulder
They carried the coffin away to the graveyard
To be buried
They said you bury the dead
What's bury?
Rosie said, "Something you do
When people are dead."
We three cleaned the house
Our auntie just sat there & cried
So we ran upstairs & sat on her bed
What's bury?
Rosie said, "Something you do
When people are dead."
Jimmy went down & picked her a flower
Then our mother said we'd been there too long
Then a commotion: a hearse at the door!
What's bury?
Rosie said, "Something you do
When people are dead."
A man with a hat & long black clothes
Entered the room
In a dark somber pose
They carried the coffin away to the graveyard
To be buried
What's bury?
Rosie said, "Something you do
When people are dead."
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