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• 1 2021-04-24T20:54:08-04:00 "Gravedigger" by Dave Matthews, contributed by Gorham Partington (2021) 1 plain 2021-04-24T20:54:08-04:00 “Gravedigger” reminds us that every loss is unique. Walking through a graveyard, Matthews reads gravestones and epitaphs. He adds commentary, including his own desire to hold onto part of life by making his grave shallow to “feel the rain” after he dies. In the individual epitaphs, Matthews illustrates how the loss of a person is specific to both the lost one’s story and the grief experienced by those affected. Each epitaph displays a life condensed into a finite description as part of a physical memorial that creates a permanent reminder of the lost one’s life. Memorials can be powerful in acknowledging and making meaning from a loss.
  
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  Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913
  Made his great grandchildren believe
  You could live to a hundred and three
  A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little kid
  So Cyrus Jones lived forever
  
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  Gravedigger
  When you dig my grave
  Could you make it shallow
  So that I can feel the rain
  Gravedigger
  
  Muriel Stonewall
  1903 to 1954
  She lost both of her babies in the second great war
  Now you should never have to watch
  As your only children lowered in the ground
  I mean you should never have to bury your own babies
  
  [Chorus]
  
  Ring around the rosy
  Pocket full of posy
  Ashes to ashes
  We all fall down
  
  [Chorus]
  
  Little Mikey Carson 67 to 75
  He rode his
  Bike like the devil until the day he died
  When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeze
  Oh, 1940 to 1992
  
  [Chorus]