If I should die to-night

If i should die to-night
and you should come to my cold corpse and say,
weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay-
If I should die to-night,
and you should come in deepest grief and woe-
and say: "Here's that ten dollars that I owe,"
I might arise in my large white cravat
and say "What's that?"

If I should die to-night
and you should come to my cold corpse and kneel,
clasping my bier to show the grief you feel,
I say, if I should die to-night
and you should come to me, and there and then
just even hint at paying me that ten,
I might arise the while,
But I'd drop dead again.

~ Ben King