IF I SHOULD DIE - Benjamin Franklin King Poems

 
 

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IF I SHOULD DIE

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 to-night,
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.