"In Dead Earnest" lyrics - PETE SEEGER
PETE SEEGER
"In Dead Earnest"
If I should die before I wake,
All my bone and sinew take
Put me in the compost pile
To decompose me for a while.
Worms, water, sun will have their way,
Returning me to common clay
All that I am will feed the trees
And little fishes in the seas.
When radishes and corn you munch,
You may be having me for lunch
And then excrete me with a grin,
Chortling, "There goes Lee again."
'Twill be my happiest destiny
To die and live eternally.
Precious Friend (1982)
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- Circles
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- Ocean Crossing
- Celery-Time
- Run, Come See Jerusalem
- Sailin' Up, Sailin' Down
- How Can I Keep From Singing
- Old Time Religion
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Ladies Auxiliary
- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
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- Tarantella
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- St. Louis Tickle
- Wimoweh
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- In Dead Earnest
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