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 ’bout payin’ me that ten,
I might arise the while,
But I’d drop dead again.
A humorous jingle that achieved immediate vogue is Casey at the Bat. The authorship has been questioned but consensus of research seems to ascribe it to Ernest Lawrence Thayer.