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Cyrus Jones eighteen-ten to nineteen-thirteen
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Made his great grandchildren believe
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You could live to a hundred and three
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A hundred and three is forever when you?re just a little kid
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So, Cyrus Jones live forever

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Gravedigger
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When you dig my grave
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Could you make it shallow
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So that I can feel the rain
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Gravedigger

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Muriel Stonewall nineteen o three to nineteen fifty four
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She lost both of her babies in the second great war
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Now, you should never have to watch your only children lowered in the ground
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I mean never have to bury your own babies

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Gravedigger
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When you dig my grave
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Could you make it shallow
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So that I can feel the rain
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Gravedigger

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Ring around the rosey
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Pocket full of posey
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Ashes to ashes
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We all fall down

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Gravedigger
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When you dig my grave
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Could you make it shallow
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So that I could feel the rain    
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Oh Gravedigger

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Little Mikey Carson sixty-seven to seventy-five
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He rode his bike like the devil until the day he died
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When he grows up he wants to be Mister Vertigo on the flying trapeze

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Gravedigger
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When you dig my grave
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Could you make it shallow  
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So that I can feel the rain
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Oh, Gravedigger
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When you dig my grave
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Could you make it shallow
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So that I can feel the rain
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I can feel the rain
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I can feel the rain
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Gravedigger
               Amsus2/G
When you dig my grave
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Could you make it shallow
         Am    G          D/F#
So that I can feel the rain
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Gravedigger
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