The Old Graveyard 8s
By Allison Steel
- Key
- G minor
- Time signature
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4
4 - Composed
- 2022
- Text
- Every Old Gravestone Ever, 1780
Description
Text is the most common epitaph from early New England gravestones. Origin unknown.
Text
O Stranger look as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me
Death is a debt to nature due
Which I have paid and so must you.