Ben King's Verse/If I Should Die

124605Ben King's Verse — If I Should DieBenjamin Franklin King

   If I should die to-night
And you should come to my cold corpse and say,
Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay--
   If I should die tonight,
And you should come in deepest grief and woe--
And say: "Here's that ten dollars that I owe,"
   I might arise in my large white cravat
   And say, "What's that?"

   If I should die to-night
And you should come to my cold corpse and kneel,
Clasping my bier to show the grief you feel,
   I say, if I should die to-night
And you should come to me, and there and then
Just even hint 'bout payin' me that ten,
   I might arise the while,
   But I'd drop dead again.