She went to church
All for to pray—
This happened on
A Sabbath Day.
So she walked up
And down the aisle,
To rest her poor
Old bones a while.
And when she stopped
At her pew door,
She spied a corpse
Lying on the floor.
And from his mouth
Out to his chin
The worms kept crawling
Out and in.
The woman to the parson said:
"Shall I be so, when I am dead?"
The parson to the woman said:
(Here the one reciting, or singing as it might be called, has a partner turn out the lights, and then he gives utterance to a shriek.)
The Cuckoo.
Ez I was out walking.
Beside a green bush
I saw two birds singing—
A blackbird and thrush.
I asked them what made 'em
So happy and gay,
And, the answer they made me:
"We are single and free.'"
