It takes me fifteen minutes walking fast But not that far Three rights, a left, then straight ahead To Cemetery Yard
It sits upon the corner of Macarthur and Fleet Streets I go there every Wednesday To see ghosts I like to meet
The entry is medieval With it's gated ironwork bars And there hasn't been a gatekeeper For many, many years So I walk right in and I can have A conversation with The Captain Robert Cunningham Or wife of Mister Smith
And who these dried up people were Back then God only knows For their tombstones only have their names And some don't even show Yet I speak to them like they’re alive Or maybe I am dead? But either way I'm speaking to them all within my head
Captain Robert Cunningham Says 'Thanks for coming here 'Cause back in eighteen sixty five It was the very year I was in a bluish uniform when under an attack I was aiming for confederates When shot straight in the back'
At which time I find I'm lacking In appropriate reply Over all the awe that I now feel About his sacrifice
'Well Captain, not that much has changed And I can’t really lie The question is not who we were But how it was we died'
And the grave of Mrs. Smith next to him quietly there sits calling out for my attention, so attention I do split
And she tells me that one Christmas Eve while milking in the barn Two red faced angry Indians strode in and she was harmed
Though she did whatever she could do to put up a good fight They stuck a knife right through her on that territorial night
'Sara tell me, please, please tell me, am I right or am I wrong? Do my children lay beside me, or did they live on and on? ”
But the courage isn't in me 'cause the tombstone dates don't lie 'Mrs. Smith, it isn’t if we lived, but how it was we died'
And a couple hours later When it was time to go back home And I felt that they were satisfied With being left alone
I turned around and looking down I asked them with a sigh “You have all of the experience… How is it one should die? ”