Frighten the Coroner Where You Are (A Musical Call-To-Arms for the Recently Passed, in Honor of Reg Shoe)

(to "Brighten the Corner Where You Are" with all kinds of apologies to Robert Lee Black, Charles Hutchison Gabriel, Ina Duley Ogdon, and R Price)

Frighten the coroner where you are!

Frighten the coroner where you are!

Turn your back on beyond; refill your body like a jar;

Frighten the coroner where you are!

Do not wait; it takes no feats of greatness, it is true,

Do not wait—your body’s like a car.

To return you simply get back in, that’s all you do;

Frighten the coroner where you are!

Frighten the coroner where you are!

Frighten the coroner where you are!

Turn your back on beyond; refill your body like a jar;

Frighten the coroner where you are!

Here are all those many brains and you sure have a need,

Here expect brains well beyond the par,

Eat them from your fumbling hands--the dead from life must feed,

Frighten the coroner where you are!

Frighten the coroner where you are!

Frighten the coroner where you are!

Turn your back on beyond; refill your body like a jar;

Frighten the coroner where you are!