When you've got no more $$#urance
Than a great big hunk of lead
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!


You've been always kicking
But you stubbed your toes

When you ups and kicks the bucket
Just like old man Mose


When you get no kicks from loving
And you blow your top instead
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!
You've been always kicking

But you stubbed your toes
When you ups and kicks the bucket
Just like old man Mose


When you get no kicks from loving
And the news begins to spread

All the cats will holler, "Murder!"
Jack, you're dead!
All the breaths leaked out of you

When your friends gather round the bed
And look at you and say, "Um, um, um, don't he look natural"
When that happens to you, daddy

Jack, you're dead!