When you've got no more assurance

Than a great big hunk of lead

And if you don't respond to romance

Jack you're dead

When a chick is smiling at you

Even though there's nothing said

If you stand there like a statue

Jack you're dead

It's a fact that you ain't living

Jack you're dead

If you just ain't got nobody

Since you've gone and lost your head

Rigor mortis has set in daddy

Jack you're dead

What's the use of having muscles

When your life hangs by a thread

If you ain't got no red corpuscles

Jack you're dead

If you can get with them

When the band comes on

If you just ain't't got no rhythm

Man you really gone

Now you can go any further

When the news begins to spread

All the cats will holler murder

Jack you're dead

When all the breath is leaked out of you

All your friends gather round the bed

And say don't he look fine

Uh huh you look so natura

When that happens to you daddy

Jack you're dead