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300 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.)

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.