Talk:The Hearse Song

Miscellaneous[edit]

Perhaps we should answer the concern described in the song. Assuming there are no spirits of the dead, you can't be aware of the worms etc. because there is no nerve activity after death. 67.160.69.105 (talk) 16:00, 27 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out

They go in thin and they come out stout"

(from northern England)Mathyeti (talk) 01:57, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"The ones that crawl in are lean and thin, the ones that crawl out are fat and stout..." Version from a Pogues-Album--89.144.204.10 (talk). — Preceding undated comment added 19:30, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever is crawling in and out (worms in most versions) is not what is playing pinochle. It should be "The bugs play pinochle on your snout." (currently Illinois, but could have learned this elsewhere) agb — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.233.167.63 (talk) 22:36, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the "In Media" section again[edit]

...mainly because it used sources that are unacceptable to use across Wikimedia projects or where the source doesn't reflect the statement it is being asked to support. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 06:41, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lyrics examples[edit]

The article seems lacking without a couple of examples of the actual lyrics. Can we confirm it's not under copyright? It would be nice to have the full earliest WWI version that can be found, and some other version to show the degree of variation. This was still a widely known part of kid culture when I was growing up in the early 1970's, but I've hardly heard it since then. In the south-central Missouri army base where I grew up, it began: "Did you ever think, when the hearse goes by / That you may be the next to die?" etc. DKEdwards (talk) 09:15, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I just added an "Example lyrics" section, with one representative public domain variant of the song from prior to 1928. --Dan Harkless (talk) 03:34, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]