Graveyard - Loudon Wainwright III

I go to the graveyard where we all must go

Among the dead & the buried there just so I will know

What it’s like beneath those trees listening to that wind

I go to the graveyard & I’ll be back again

I played in the graveyard when I was just a boy

I’d run among the headstones myself I would enjoy

But I was young & hardly knew what would happen then

I played in the graveyard & I’ll be back again

I walk through the graveyard I read the headstones

So many dead & buried there, each one all alone

An old man and an infant & a little child of ten

I walk through the graveyard & I’ll be back again

My father’s in the graveyard, my dear mother too

I viit them with flowers what else can I do

I go to the graveyard to remember them

I’m an orphan in the graveyard & I’ll be back again

(! Horus)