Tombstone two-step

Style: Upbeat outlaw-folk / Diggy Graves-type Americana

When I go down, don’t you wear no black

Pop that cork and never look back

Dig me a hole where the moonlight hits

And crank that fiddle ‘til the groundbone splits

Let the whiskey pour, let the fire spin high

Let the crows sing low ‘neath a blood-red sky

Dance on my grave with them boots on tight

Kick up dirt in the pale moonlight

Laugh so loud it wakes the dead

Spin your skirt, girl, paint it red

If I’m gone, don’t you cry or pray—

Just stomp the devil out, dance on my grave!

Carve my stone with a crooked grin

Say “Here lies trouble, raised in sin”

Light up a smoke and a dynamite fuse

Let the preacher know I ain’t got much to lose

Play my song in a minor key

With a banjo howl and a hellhound beat

Dance on my grave with them boots on tight

Kick up dirt in the pale moonlight

Laugh so loud it wakes the dead

Spin your skirt, girl, paint it red

If I’m gone, don’t you cry or pray—

Just stomp the devil out, dance on my grave!

If you hear my name in the wind at night

Don’t be scared, just dance it right

I’ll be tappin’ bones six feet deep

Keepin’ time while the reapers sleep

Dance on my grave, yeah, raise some hell

Let ‘em talk, let ‘em curse, let the church bell yell

Laugh so loud the tombstones shake

Spill that shine, girl, make it quake

If I’m gone, don’t you cry or pray—

Just stomp the devil out, dance on my grave!

Stomp!

Clap!

Boots in the clay—

Come raise hell and dance on my grave!