X:1267
T: the Mummy Song
T: (tune--"The Long, Long Trail" -- Key of G)
%R: song
B: "The Golden Book of Favorite Songs", 1923
S: https://ia802507.us.archive.org/33/items/goldenbookoffavo00beat_0/goldenbookoffavo00beat_0.pdf
Z: 2020 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
F:http://john-chambers.us/~jc/music/book/GoldenBookOfFavoriteSongs/1267_the_Mummy_Song.abc	 2025-03-14 133110 UT
K:
W: It's a short, short life we live here  So let us give while we may
W: And a song for every moment            Of the whole bright day.
W:
W: What's the use of looking gloomy,      Or what's the use of our tears,
W: When we know a Mummy's had no fun      For more'n Three-Thousand Years.