Have You Ever Thought As A Hearse Goes By
Contributors
Unknown Person
Fieldworkers
Date
October 1953
Track ID
54514
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1953.239.B7
Original Tape ID
Summary
A macabre comic song in which the singer invites us to imagine what happens to a corpse after it is laid to rest.
Item Notes
6 verses of 4 lines; last two lines of each verse are a vocable refrain.
See:
'American Songbag' (C. Sandburg, 1927) p. 444
'American Ballads & Folk Songs' (J. A. Lomax, A. Lomax, 1934) pp. 556-557
Language
English
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Fair