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Give me a paddle, give me a lathe,
I’m gonna dig me outta this grave.
I’m gonna take this body to town
cuz my skeleton honey want a wedding gown.

Twarnt no room to dig us separate,
so they threw us all and the hog in one big group pit.

There I met my skeleton honey
and a while down der she looked at me
never saying a single word,
but keeping on actin like she was happy

plain as rain drops I however could see
that dripped from her hollow, she wern’t happy at all
seems I should wed her in church-preacher weddin do,
an maybe she’ll have reason to keep living on
(an teach her how to keep happy living on)

Thank you for rain, thank you for sun,
thank you for plates of yellow sweet-gum.
I don’t want to kill my wife again,
but I want to know why she is not a perfect woman.

She sits on her chair in the sun-room
thinking about what she doesn’t want to do
in her daily schedule knowing
that tomorrow is coming quickly too.

I’m gonna dig me outta this grave
and I’m gonna take this body to town

hire a horseman quick strong on the whip
cuz my skeleton honey want a wedding gown

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from The Screaming Hollow and Other Hoosier County Favorites, released June 12, 2012
written by Matthew Maher

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We write the music of pinecones, old ships, moss, ancient forests, flea markets, naan bread, shepherd bells, victorian houses, and haunted bridges

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