《The Gravedigger(2006 Digital Remaster)》歌词

[00:00:01] The Gravedigger - Jake Thackray

[00:00:08] I am a grave-digger a digger of

[00:00:10] Graves I know my clay

[00:00:12] I know in my water I know in my

[00:00:14] Blood I know in my bones

[00:00:16] That you will never believe in the

[00:00:18] Things I am going to say

[00:00:20] Till you are listening in to a funeral

[00:00:22] All of your own

[00:00:24] There are uncles and aunties and nieces

[00:00:26] And nephews and sisters-in-law

[00:00:28] A family swarms with them; they teem;

[00:00:30] They are thicker than flies

[00:00:32] Sisters and brothers and cousins and

[00:00:34] Aunties and daughters galore

[00:00:36] The only time when all of them meet

[00:00:38] Is when one of them dies

[00:00:41] At the grave at the grave at the

[00:00:43] Family family grave

[00:00:45] The putting of the people in the ground

[00:00:49] There are days days when I shake

[00:00:51] My shovel at the sky

[00:00:52] Oh there are days there are days

[00:00:54] It gets you down down down;

[00:00:57] Shovel at the sky gets you down

[00:01:04] I see many different fashions of

[00:01:06] Mourning both fancy and plain

[00:01:08] There are those who go very white

[00:01:10] And stand there aghast and just gawp;

[00:01:13] They cannot manage to cry - and

[00:01:14] There's others who cannot refrain:

[00:01:17] Willy-nilly they bellow and howl

[00:01:18] At the drop of a corpse

[00:01:20] They sit in the chapel and whisper

[00:01:22] And meditate over the stiff

[00:01:24] They never speak ill of him - especially

[00:01:27] If he was close -

[00:01:29] But: "What a good family man

[00:01:30] And a wonderful friend " even if

[00:01:33] He was a palpable pain in the arse

[00:01:35] And he died of a dose

[00:01:37] At the grave at the grave at the

[00:01:39] Family family grave

[00:01:41] The putting of the people in the ground

[00:01:45] Some with no one there - at least

[00:01:47] Just a policeman and a priest

[00:01:49] There are days oh there are days

[00:01:51] It gets you down down down;

[00:01:53] Policeman and a priest gets you down

[00:02:01] Then there are those of course

[00:02:02] Who turn up and can then hardly wait

[00:02:04] For the vicar to stop and the coffin to

[00:02:06] Drop and the sobbing subside

[00:02:09] And then they are barely a blur

[00:02:10] As they sprint for the cemetery gates

[00:02:13] To go get their hands on the money

[00:02:14] The food or the widow's backside

[00:02:17] There are one or two "do"s turn out

[00:02:18] Disappointingly in the extreme

[00:02:21] Where the booze is rough and the

[00:02:22] Grub is duff and no flowers at all

[00:02:25] And the mother embarrasses you with a

[00:02:27] Sudden hysterical scream

[00:02:29] Where the coffin you came to see

[00:02:31] Off is pathetically small

[00:02:33] At the grave at the grave at the family

[00:02:36] Family grave

[00:02:37] The putting of the people in the ground

[00:02:41] In a whisper often I say "Good luck

[00:02:44] My friend Goodbye"

[00:02:45] There are days oh there are days

[00:02:47] It gets you down down down

[00:02:49] "Good luck my friend Goodbye "

[00:02:51] It gets you down

[00:02:57] They do the round of the family

[00:02:58] And pay their respects

[00:03:01] "We'll have to be going " "How nice "

[00:03:02] "How sad " And "Thanking you "

[00:03:05] They are studying form and

[00:03:06] Weighing up who it is going to be next

[00:03:09] To go under the slab Whose

[00:03:10] Turn to pay for the very next "do"

[00:03:13] I am a grave-digger a digger

[00:03:14] Of graves I know my clay

[00:03:17] I know in my water I know in

[00:03:19] My blood I know in my bones

[00:03:21] That you will never believe in the

[00:03:22] Things I am going to say

[00:03:25] Till you are listening in to a

[00:03:27] Funeral all of your own

[00:03:29] At the grave at the grave

[00:03:31] At the family family grave

[00:03:33] The putting of the people

[00:03:35] In the ground

[00:03:37] There are days days when I shake

[00:03:39] My shovel at the sky

[00:03:41] Oh there are days oh there are

[00:03:42] Days it gets you down down down;

[00:03:45] Shovel at the sky gets you down