Bodies, please don't cry
Bodies, don't die
Bodies, please don't cry
Bodies

I been taking all the silver
I been saving all the gold
I'm gonna stuff it down the throat of a weak, old corpse
Save that doggone soul

I been saving up my pain
I'm gonna give it back in spades
I been strangling the cries from the murder of love
Save your soul tonight

Bodies, please don't cry
Bodies, don't die
Bodies, please don't cry
Bodies

I been raising up the dead
Gonna send them to the house of Cain
I been praying in the light of the warning moon
Slay your doggone soul

I've been taken out of Heaven
I been put upon this world
I been walking up and down, to and fro
Save your doggone soul
Bodies, please don't cry
Bodies, don't die
Bodies, please don't cry
Bodies

I got bodies on the left
I got bodies on the right
I got bodies up and down, all across town
Save your soul tonight

Bodies, please don't cry
Bodies
Come on, take it home
Come on, take 'em back
Come on, take 'em back home