Lol makes sense. If I remember correctly, a friend got Mom and Dad a Ray Stevens tape in the late 90's (I was probably about 3), and for some reason we ended up leaving it behind at Grandma's house, but for many years up until I was a teenager, we would watch it just about every time we came over there. Eventually Grandma's VCR broke sometime in the late 2000's, and when she got rid of that, she donated her VHS tapes, including the Ray Stevens tape. Oh well, good thing there's UA-cam.
My parents would tell us stories about “sitting up with the dead” as they did it OFTEN growing up and even in their married 20s and 30s. The last time THEY sat up with a dead someone, it was a great uncle and it was 1965!!! So we particularly LOVED this song and it never ever failed to make my Mother laugh like a child. This moment, as I’m typing, I’m leaving my Mother’s memorial service. We are going to eat dinner at my aunt’s farm and I will play this for my family. They will love it. Ty Ray Stevens.
My grandparents had this tape when my cousin and I were kids and we wore it out growing up. I haven’t thought about it in probably a good 25-30 years. I’m 40 now and my grandma passed away almost 4 months ago. This is bringing back great memories.❤️
Finding this made my day! im 23 but when i was a kid i remember having a vhs tape with a bunch of these videos on it and my father and i would watch this every night before bed :) hes past now but these bring back such great memories.
Sami Youngs omg! when I was little my family used to camp in our cabin on the Mississippi. Well me and my cousin would be board and would watch movies to pay the time. Of the 4 VHS we had this was one of them and we used to love watching it! You hit the nail on the head when you said it brings back memories! I'm going to have to go watch the rest now. 😊
As a kid this song freaked me out. As an adult it cracks me up picturing it going down. People do odd things when scared and situations unravel hilariously! Ray is a good one!
Ray Stevens is an awesome artist. Not only is he funny, but he's talented and kid-friendly, too! Still is and always will be one of my favorite arists.
His song Margaret has been my all time favorite my mom's name was Margaret there wasn't a time I couldn't sing that song she laugh. She passed with copd after my strokes. She She say are you baked when we try git her to take a bath. She gut tickled lived her some ray Steven's.
I had the tape this video appeared on when I was a kid, I watched it all the time. Some of the songs got funnier when I grew up and understood the jokes. Especially "It's Me Again Margaret."
What Ray Stevens sang about sitting up with the dead is true. I grew up in the South and I was in the 8th grade when my dad's aunt died. They had her body in a casket in her and my dad's uncle's house. I visited their house many times when I was growing up and it was a creepy feeling knowing that I have to sit up with a dead person in a house.
The tradition comes from the days before medical signs told you there was no life. So, you had to sit up with the body just in case the person wasn't truly dead. So, it's where the term "parlor" & "living room" came from
I remember going to people 's houses when the dead were brought into the parlor. The men would sit with the dead and the women sat in the kitchen. If there was a few kids we had to sleep cross way of the bed.
A lot of the very old houses used to have something called a"coffin door" that was only used at a death in the house to remove the coffin ⚰️ and body into the hearse. This was it's only purpose.
my favorite part was always the gravedigger part "you ain't gettin' outta here tonight"......BUT I DID!" XD If they do a Zombieland 3 They should use this as the opening credit song! It'd be perfect!
Dead people can't hurt you but you can hurt yourself getting away from them.he can find humor in any situation I love his songs.😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
Buck Berthod nope, that honor goes to: “You might as well come over here and sit down next to me, boy, ‘cause y’ain’t gettin’ outta here tonight!” “But I did!”
I LOVE RAY STEVENS! HE'S HILARIOUS & HAS GOD GIVEN TALENT TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH! THE FIRST SONG HE SONG I HEARD WAS THE STREAK WHEN I WAS A KID. WE SANG IT AND LAUUGHED & LAUGHED! STILL DO! LOL GOD BLESS YOU RAY STEVENS!❤🙏❤
I remember "The Streak", very well! But "Bridget The Midget" and "Ahab The Arab", "Everything Is Beautiful" were really popular too around that time!" I remembered "Ahab The Arab", because one of my older guy cousins used to sing it to us kids to make us laugh!
GOOD VIDEO!!!!! I REMEMBER MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER BEING LAID OUT FOR VISITATION,IN HER HOUSE.IT WAS IN THE MID 60'S AND I WAS ABOUT 7 YRS OLD.IT WAS THE CREEPIEST DAMN THING THAT IV'E EVER SEEN.THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME EVER SEEING A DEAD PERSON.
I ran through my parents glass front door after my dad died Oct 2017. He came home n died about 5hrs later, this was in 2017 I was 29, well he passed and everyone was sitting there talking n I looked over n dads leg raised up n I ran all over my mom, uncle, husband n thru that glass door I went lol I thought they had left it open but apparently not 😂😂
3:12 "You might as well come over here and sit down beside me, boy. Cuz I can see you ain't getting outta here tonight!" "...But I did." Best part of the whole song right there! ^_^
I'm 35 and your videos remind me of my dad who died 10 years ago. I remember when I was little dad would play the vhs of all these videos. Even all these years later, they make me laugh, and it's good to smile and remember my dad.
Yeah, my dad owned the album on CD when I was a kid, and regularly throughout the 90s and 00s he'd play it over the living room speakers at night. These songs remind me of simpler times sitting at the dinner table or in the living room. As well as the TV shows we'd watch when we were finished eating, like Star Trek: Voyager and Stargate: SG-1.
Why in the World would it be necessary to sit up with the dead, if anything else happens, what can you do! "Hello, I'm Death, I've come for your Uncle, you can, however, if you wish, fight me, for your Uncle's Soul, if you win, He returns to life, if you lose, I get you, BOTH". ME; "Sorry, Uncle, too bad you're dead!, Cause, I AIN'T FIGHTING NOBODY, TONIGHT!"
I haven't thought about this in years. When I was younger, my grandpa and grandma gave me a collection of Ray Stevens music videos on a VHS, and I laughed so hard. A lot of the jokes became long-running jokes in my family over time. My grandpa (papa) sadly passed away in 2003, and grandma now has stage 2 dementia. Ray Stevens will always remind me of them and the good moments my family managed to find between all the messed up trauma. Ray also reminds me of my dad (and weirdly looked just like him) during his rare good moments and the humor he has. Funny how one man singing funny songs brought some light into such a troubled family like we had.
can you imagine an archaeologist in the far future opening up a casket to find remains being tied down with a big chain like that. they probably would either think he was buried alive or cursed lol
Mr Stevens.. I wanted to say thank You for all of your entertainment and songs you have made... You have been a great part of my fondest memories of childhood and you brought great amusement to my family with your creative songs and videos. God bless you sir, and i thank you from the bottom of my heart.. Adam Gibbons
@fregia12345 i remember doing that too my favorite song on the VCR was Surfing USSR or help me make it through the night....................or any of the other songs : - )
He was my first cassette, found it in the seats of my dad's 80's Jaguar when I was about four or five. His eyes lit up when I showed him! Told me I'll never forget these songs. He was right. I'm 25 now and he was the soundtrack to some of my best memories. I'd love to hear dad laugh to these songs again.
When I went to kentucky when i was knee high to a grass hopper I would always go to my great grandparents and watched the VHS tape with this song and others on it.
Is this the same person who plays Uncle Fred in this video the one who also plays Bobby, from the brothers, Chuck and Bobby, on the Jim Varney show, "Hey, Vern, It's Ernest"?
I remember years ago, my friends dad passed and they had him at the house! I had never experienced that since!!! Mom told me many years ago she had heard some one did sit up in casket!!!! I'd have been OUT a door or made a new one!!!! Lol.!!!!
I've seen it happen. Doing healthcare. A jostle can cause muscles to contract. Usually just get sighs or wheezes but when they sit up it'll scare the crap out of you.
+Ryan Hale Someone I knew had an orderly job and when he was hosing down a body the cold water made the abs contract and the body sit up. Orderly was running down the hall screaming his head off!
And that preacher nearly knocked me down, he said "OOOHHHH, I'm headin out that kitchen door. AHE!!!". I hollered "Fred, that kitchen ain't got no door in it," he said "Don't worry son, it will have in a minute" I AIN'T NEVER SEEN SO MUCH JUMPING AND SHOVIN BEFORE. Cracks me up every time...
This reminds me of a funeral I went as a kid. A friend of my mother’s lost her mother suddenly. This was a woman who thought it great fun to call you over, fart and then walk away. When she died, no one new it for three days, so by the time they had the funeral the body was starting to get, uhm… “gassy”. During the service, the body expelled some gas, loudly. One of her daughter yells, “mother! Did you fart!?” Most fun I’ve ever had at a funeral!
This reminds me of my Dad, he was a big man - picture the prize fighter Butter Bean...and we went to a wake and my father went to kneel down but he leaned on the coffin and he made it tip upwards🤣🤣🤣 Jesus talk about scaring everyone out we thought the old lady was gonna roll out
I've heard dozens of Ray Stevens songs since I was a little kid. Guess we didn't have this album, 'cause this is my first time hearing this spOoOoOoky song. What a trip!
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The way he says "But I did" kills me every time.
It’s the best!
THAT is timing, all the best comics, and, comedians have it, in spades!
ikr? it reminds me of the streak when he says “yeah i did” 3 times.
InstaBlaster...
“Next time i’m just gonna send FLOWERS!! Yeah...”
I think a Ray Stevens VHS tape came stock with any home in the late 80s and 90s lmao
Lol makes sense. If I remember correctly, a friend got Mom and Dad a Ray Stevens tape in the late 90's (I was probably about 3), and for some reason we ended up leaving it behind at Grandma's house, but for many years up until I was a teenager, we would watch it just about every time we came over there. Eventually Grandma's VCR broke sometime in the late 2000's, and when she got rid of that, she donated her VHS tapes, including the Ray Stevens tape. Oh well, good thing there's UA-cam.
We had one. Lolol 😂😂
I left my copy in the Forest Service Ranger Station bunkhouse. I hope people enjoyed it.
Hahahahahhaa YES
Hell yeah! Why not, ray Stevens is a good comedian singer
2024 anyone? Yeah yeah
damn 4 hours ago! there must really be something in the air today.
🙋♀️April 2024
I'm always listening to Ray...he paved the way for other comedic artists
16/04/24@@DocFrizzle
Yes.
My parents would tell us stories about “sitting up with the dead” as they did it OFTEN growing up and even in their married 20s and 30s. The last time THEY sat up with a dead someone, it was a great uncle and it was 1965!!! So we particularly LOVED this song and it never ever failed to make my Mother laugh like a child.
This moment, as I’m typing, I’m leaving my Mother’s memorial service. We are going to eat dinner at my aunt’s farm and I will play this for my family. They will love it. Ty Ray Stevens.
My grandparents had this tape when my cousin and I were kids and we wore it out growing up. I haven’t thought about it in probably a good 25-30 years. I’m 40 now and my grandma passed away almost 4 months ago. This is bringing back great memories.❤️
I did the same thing with my grandparents tape
I think Ray had to be around in the 60’s when I was a kid.
Me too@@janhoyle1462
Everyone's grandparents had this on VHS. I don't know where they got it or where it came from. I think it might be some sort of supernatural event.
I’ve been looking for this song for decades. But same situation. Grandparents had it on vhs
Ray Stevens knew how to sing and tell a story at the same time. True comedy.
All songs are supposed to tell a story.
Uncle Fred done be gon' sit up with his OWN self.
Best Line!
Yes good video
Next time, I'm just gonna send flowers!
@@allisgrace1313 I think it's a three-way tie... That line, the one about the back door and the one where he's in the grave got out.
Next time imma send him flowers. Yeah.
Finding this made my day! im 23 but when i was a kid i remember having a vhs tape with a bunch of these videos on it and my father and i would watch this every night before bed :) hes past now but these bring back such great memories.
I also had the Ray Stevens VHS tape. My grandparents had it and would watch it with me. The videos were great!
yeah i'm 23 too and I agree with you
I am 12 and I love old country
Sami Youngs im 20 and my pawpaw had two vhs and we wore them out but this was our favorite
Sami Youngs omg! when I was little my family used to camp in our cabin on the Mississippi. Well me and my cousin would be board and would watch movies to pay the time. Of the 4 VHS we had this was one of them and we used to love watching it! You hit the nail on the head when you said it brings back memories! I'm going to have to go watch the rest now. 😊
I just answered a robocall, "Hello Margaret...Its me again Margaret...are ya naked Margaret!"...followed by a dirty little giggle. 🤣
😆LOL 😆!
Haha
As a kid this song freaked me out. As an adult it cracks me up picturing it going down. People do odd things when scared and situations unravel hilariously! Ray is a good one!
Same! I used to cry watching this
Carolyn@@jordyw469
Same my grandma used to skip this one for me.
Agreed! 😅
So good👌🏼
It's actually a felony to have a funeral in a private residence unless you have upgraded heating & ventilation.
This guy is an absolute riot, amazing stuff
Ray Stevens is an awesome artist. Not only is he funny, but he's talented and kid-friendly, too! Still is and always will be one of my favorite arists.
the streak is borderline kid-friendly to be fair.
Though I still love Ray!!!
@@status8477 lol, it's one of those things that are so bizarre it wouldn't do any harm to show a kid.
Actually, children should only watch baptist ministers on TV, according to 2 Corinthians 4:18.
@@monerz1 uhh okay then? Lol I don't see what that has to do with anything we were discussing but alrighty
His song Margaret has been my all time favorite my mom's name was Margaret there wasn't a time I couldn't sing that song she laugh. She passed with copd after my strokes. She She say are you baked when we try git her to take a bath. She gut tickled lived her some ray Steven's.
I knew of Ray Stevens music before I found Weird Al Yankovics
My grandpa introduced me to both
You wanna be a real connoisseur of comedy music, look up Allen Sherman. He predated both of them
@@darchangel2136 hello mudder
My aunt crystal always loved this song may she R.I.P.
I love ray Stevens. Anyone else?
I LOVE Ray Stevens, he is SO FUNNY!!!!!!
Hell yeah!!
I had the tape this video appeared on when I was a kid, I watched it all the time.
Some of the songs got funnier when I grew up and understood the jokes.
Especially "It's Me Again Margaret."
Yes indeed
Me
What Ray Stevens sang about sitting up with the dead is true. I grew up in the South and I was in the 8th grade when my dad's aunt died. They had her body in a casket in her and my dad's uncle's house. I visited their house many times when I was growing up and it was a creepy feeling knowing that I have to sit up with a dead person in a house.
The tradition comes from the days before medical signs told you there was no life. So, you had to sit up with the body just in case the person wasn't truly dead. So, it's where the term "parlor" & "living room" came from
yeah I don't think I'd like that one bit.
I remember going to people 's houses when the dead were brought into the parlor. The men would sit with the dead and the women sat in the kitchen. If there was a few kids we had to sleep cross way of the bed.
Creepy is a under statement
A lot of the very old houses used to have something called a"coffin door" that was only used at a death in the house to remove the coffin ⚰️ and body into the hearse. This was it's only purpose.
Ray Stevens is one of a kind.
This has got to be one of (if not THE) best Ray Steven's songs ever made!
I agree.
What about Mississippi squirrel revival
The Streak is the best
Believe it or not, Ray was in his early 50's when this song came out (in 1990).
Love Mississippi squirrel and the streak too but my fave ray Stevens song is it's me again Margaret
my favorite part was always the gravedigger part "you ain't gettin' outta here tonight"......BUT I DID!" XD
If they do a Zombieland 3 They should use this as the opening credit song! It'd be perfect!
As a rapper believe it or not. Ray Stevens has been a huge inspiration
I rap too and I agree I actually want to make my own version of this track!!!! 🔥
Dead people can't hurt you but you can hurt yourself getting away from them.he can find humor in any situation I love his songs.😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
"..... They said that the dead can't hurt you 'cause they already left but what they left, sure can make you hurt yourself..." lol
numberonesongs
Don't worry son it will have one in a minet LOL 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
REV THAT KITCHEN AIN'T GOT NO DOOR IN IT! He said DON'T WORRY SON IT WILL HAVE ONE IN A MINUTE! 😂😂😂😂😂
Because the British use bricks and stones that wouldn’t be possible
I couldn’t stop laughing at that part. 🤣
Lol remember watching ray stevens when i was a kid back in the 90s
Yeah, I doubt there were many "grandparent" households that didnt have this vhs layin around somewhere.
We didn't, we had a cd that had hits from the 60's and 70's, 1 cd had his song the streak on it.
I can remember going to my grandparents house in north Mississippi and watching these videos with my grandfather
My grandparents still do. And I still watch them every time I go back home to visit.
🤣🤣 my dad's parents had it 😝
i remember having a compilation of ray stevens videos on VHS as a kid growing up in the 90s.
REV THAT KITCHEN AINT GOT NO DOOR IN IT
He said
DONT WORRY SON, IT WILL HAAAVE IN A MINUTE 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That preacher plowed through that wall!
Yes good one😂
where did ya want IT?
Best part of the song
Buck Berthod nope, that honor goes to:
“You might as well come over here and sit down next to me, boy, ‘cause y’ain’t gettin’ outta here tonight!”
“But I did!”
if only songs could be this great again.
We have a local Real Oldies station in Seattle (KIXI-AM), but you can bet they wouldn't play Ray Stevens!
your comment has been in the section for a decade and now it has 200 likes
I LOVE RAY STEVENS! HE'S HILARIOUS & HAS GOD GIVEN TALENT TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH! THE FIRST SONG HE SONG I HEARD WAS THE STREAK WHEN I WAS A KID. WE SANG IT AND LAUUGHED & LAUGHED! STILL DO! LOL GOD BLESS YOU RAY STEVENS!❤🙏❤
Why are you yelling?
You're just a young whipper snapper. That's good. ((-:
I can remember when Ahab the Arab first came out.
I remember "The Streak", very well! But "Bridget The Midget" and "Ahab The Arab", "Everything Is Beautiful" were really popular too around that time!" I remembered "Ahab The Arab", because one of my older guy cousins used to sing it to us kids to make us laugh!
GOOD VIDEO!!!!! I REMEMBER MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER BEING LAID OUT FOR VISITATION,IN HER HOUSE.IT WAS IN THE MID 60'S AND I WAS ABOUT 7 YRS OLD.IT WAS THE CREEPIEST DAMN THING THAT IV'E EVER SEEN.THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME EVER SEEING A DEAD PERSON.
Ray: Rev that kitchen ain't got no door in it!
Preacher: Don't worry son, it will have in a minute!
XD
Edit: 2:13
Fatty Buccha In reality he would have knocked himself out running into the wall, woken up alone in the house with uncle fred and had a heart attack
Lol
@@gojirageek Quite true. Maybe if he rammed that wall repeatedly he might eventually collapse it, however there were faster ways out.
I ran through my parents glass front door after my dad died Oct 2017. He came home n died about 5hrs later, this was in 2017 I was 29, well he passed and everyone was sitting there talking n I looked over n dads leg raised up n I ran all over my mom, uncle, husband n thru that glass door I went lol I thought they had left it open but apparently not 😂😂
Great video😊
Can't thank my grandparents enough for introducing me to this man's music when I was about 7! What a legend!
I CAN REMEMBER WATCHING THIS VIDEO ON VHS ALL THE TIME WITH MY OLDER SISTER AND MY OLDER BROTHER AND MY PARENTS WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID
This man will truly go down in history as a legend of spoof and piss-take, long may his hilarious and brilliantly constructed songs live.
running from the dead and you go through a cemetary? real smart.
Ik hes a goofball. LOL
Yep.
@Sharon Jensen look mate I'm just a grave keeper
I still have living relatives in Tennessee who remember staying up with the dead. It was common practice in the south.
The Amish in my area still do it
til some skank in cosmo bumped her gums about it...
we still do
I love him so much
this used to absolutely horrify me as a kid and yet here i am jamming out to it like 7 years later
2023 now and this song is still a banger. Happy New Year eery body!
3:12
"You might as well come over here and sit down beside me, boy. Cuz I can see you ain't getting outta here tonight!"
"...But I did."
Best part of the whole song right there! ^_^
+TheKhopesh BUT I DEEEEED
if I was there in the grave and as scared as he was and saw the town drunk ,ID BE OUT OF THERE IN A SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Corrected it, thanks!
Love that part too!! childhood memories of watching all of best songs on a VHS tape lol
when uncle fred sat up; so did everyone else!!
that was funny!
I've always been surprised that nobodies used this as the end theme for a zombie film.
Who would dare use this funny song in a horror film?
George Romero for one.
Lloyd Kaufman might too.
Guillermo del Toro may.
@@Thompsonnw Well depends on the film in question as for several years there has been a lot of Zombie films that are made with comedy in mind...
I volunteer...
William Thompson people with a right sense of mind
he's one of the funniest singers out there!!
Girl Quite15 not to mention one of the most talented
Don't forget Weird Al..
I agree
I remember this from years ago. They sat up with the dead in the sixties when I was growing up. Song is funny.
40 dislikes? What's to hate about this video? It's funny no matter who you are.
formerevolutionist I'm guessing the seven people who didn't like this video had a bad experience with sitting up with dead people.
that or they don't like country or he's rich or that he's famous
Well...ya know how them there haters are...they're just plum hateful$ Don't you pay 'em any mind, ok?
It was dead people sad that no one will sit with them any more.
They were probably PETA people who didn't like the toy cat tail getting stepped on lolz
Watch out screen door.no screen door could stop ray Stevens 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
I'm 35 and your videos remind me of my dad who died 10 years ago. I remember when I was little dad would play the vhs of all these videos. Even all these years later, they make me laugh, and it's good to smile and remember my dad.
Yeah, my dad owned the album on CD when I was a kid, and regularly throughout the 90s and 00s he'd play it over the living room speakers at night.
These songs remind me of simpler times sitting at the dinner table or in the living room. As well as the TV shows we'd watch when we were finished eating, like Star Trek: Voyager and Stargate: SG-1.
Great song
most people don't realize how truthful this song actually is.
Amen
the Amish in our area still have home funerals.
I do....
Yes that's so true.good video
Yes, this was quite normal in the 19th and early 20th century periods. And some small towns still do this.
I want this song played at my funeral
Happy 82nd Birthday Harold Ray Ragsdale. Thank you for the life long memories of humorous songs and stories.. God Bless..
Lord, this reminds me of the last Wake I sat up for. In the South, a long time ago.
This is a real thing, or was. My family did this long ago. My dad told me he remembered doing it as a young child.
not only is it a real thing, but it use to be common actually
Why in the World would it be necessary to sit up with the dead, if anything else happens, what can you do! "Hello, I'm Death, I've come for your Uncle, you can, however, if you wish, fight me, for your Uncle's Soul, if you win, He returns to life, if you lose, I get you, BOTH".
ME; "Sorry, Uncle, too bad you're dead!, Cause, I AIN'T FIGHTING NOBODY, TONIGHT!"
@LadyDie1223 same here me and my brother would go over to our grandparents house and watch this tape until momma had to wake us up to go home.
"uncle fred is gonna sit up with his own self!" Thumbs up!! awesome song love All of Ray Stevens work, pure genius-ness.
I like Ray Steven's I get a kick out of him with his songs 😅🤪🤣🤪🤣🤣
"But I did." First time i heard that i hooooooowled with laughter for like half an hour
I haven't thought about this in years. When I was younger, my grandpa and grandma gave me a collection of Ray Stevens music videos on a VHS, and I laughed so hard. A lot of the jokes became long-running jokes in my family over time. My grandpa (papa) sadly passed away in 2003, and grandma now has stage 2 dementia. Ray Stevens will always remind me of them and the good moments my family managed to find between all the messed up trauma. Ray also reminds me of my dad (and weirdly looked just like him) during his rare good moments and the humor he has. Funny how one man singing funny songs brought some light into such a troubled family like we had.
You should play it for your grandma ❤
favorite part was always when Ray falls in the grave and meets the digger
MistaTofMaine OMG yes!!! my family all cried laughing
MistaTofMaine that was his uncle Fred
No it was Ray who fell in.
can you imagine an archaeologist in the far future opening up a casket to find remains being tied down with a big chain like that. they probably would either think he was buried alive or cursed lol
Mr Stevens.. I wanted to say thank You for all of your entertainment and songs you have made...
You have been a great part of my fondest memories of childhood and you brought great amusement to my family with your creative songs and videos.
God bless you sir, and i thank you from the bottom of my heart..
Adam Gibbons
this is is one song that gave me to creeps!
Grew up watching the vhs in grandmas basement, mid 90's man i miss that.
When he falls in the grave and the Town Drunk is STILL in there talking to him 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My Dad recently told me that his Dad once had to Sit Up with the Dead.
Me, I'd be sitting, so's I had a straight shot at the door! Anything happens I couldn't realistically expect, I'm out of there!
My childhood.
Down here in rural North Carolina. I remember as a kid that this was a customary practice for the older generation to sit up with the dead until dawn.
Same down here in rural South Carolina too. Also the older generations used to have picnics at the grave sites in the cemetery.
@fregia12345
i remember doing that too my favorite song on the VCR was Surfing USSR or help me make it through the night....................or any of the other songs : - )
95% of you guys were introduced to this man by your grandparents. I garauntee it.
It is admiral that he did not feel the need to cuss to get laughts. I think him for that.
Ray is the funniest ever. Love his videos, and songs
Probably best memory I have as a kid is sitting in my grandma's living room watching these songs on vhs
My favorite line from this song has always been "I ain't sittin' up with the dead no more, since the dead started sittin' up too" XD
Classic
He was my first cassette, found it in the seats of my dad's 80's Jaguar when I was about four or five. His eyes lit up when I showed him! Told me I'll never forget these songs. He was right. I'm 25 now and he was the soundtrack to some of my best memories. I'd love to hear dad laugh to these songs again.
When I went to kentucky when i was knee high to a grass hopper I would always go to my great grandparents and watched the VHS tape with this song and others on it.
I love Ray Stevens also! You don’t have to cuss and be vulgar to be funny!
Good clean hilarious songs . That’s the way it should be .
this song scared the shit out of me as a kid.....now for some odd reason I love embalming
Me to
Me too
You don't say
For real 😳
Ray Stevens, king of non-stop- laugh-riot musical videos.
69 people are gonna sit up with their own selves.
+Susanna Register lmfaoooo
Susanna Register over 200 now. Hope they enjoy.
415 to date
Well the 69 turn up to 450 poor them lol hey get the firecrackers lol
516 lol
Uncle Fred looks like the same actor from Ernest Saves Christmas! I bet it is the same guy.
It is that's how I got here lol
Yep! He was in other Ernest movies too-- Goes to Jail, Scared Stupid.
It is. He was also the security guard in Ernest Goes To Jail. He was a salesman's assistant in Ernest Scared Stupid, too.
fireblazer187
And Bubble Boy, aye?
It is the same guy but it's not Jim Varney, too bad he's dead now, funny guy.
My great grandmother had the VHS on which these were featured - good stuff!
Chaney Robertson You too?
Is this the same person who plays Uncle Fred in this video the one who also plays Bobby, from the brothers, Chuck and Bobby, on the Jim Varney show, "Hey, Vern, It's Ernest"?
Yep! Same guy.
I remember years ago, my friends dad passed and they had him at the house! I had never experienced that since!!! Mom told me many years ago she had heard some one did sit up in casket!!!! I'd have been OUT a door or made a new one!!!! Lol.!!!!
I've seen it happen. Doing healthcare. A jostle can cause muscles to contract. Usually just get sighs or wheezes but when they sit up it'll scare the crap out of you.
+Ryan Hale Someone I knew had an orderly job and when he was hosing down a body the cold water made the abs contract and the body sit up. Orderly was running down the hall screaming his head off!
Knowing me, I'd of probably dropped over dead myself!!! Lol!
@@andrewunjo158 if I was your orderly friend, I would have quit right then and there!
@@georgetunstill2341 he might have. Which is why he was in the accounting or business administration course at the college! 🤣
I grew up living with my Grandmother. She got me into Ray from the beginning and I was hooked from then on.
Can you imagine being a kid, and, having to go through something like this!? Some people would be laughing at this, the rest of their lives!
Might as well come in and set down with me, cause you ain't getting out tonight, BUT I DID
CLASSIC THEN, CLASSIC NOW
I've been a huge Fan since I was 14yrs old, I'm 51 now, and still am a huge Fan. I got my kids hooked on your music, my Grandbabies are next!!🤩😍🥰
I remember this when I was little on an old vhs my grandpa had
+Ben Harris My brother and I would watch the VHS tape when we went to our grandparents', too!
My grandpa had this vhs tape along with Ray Stevens live I used to watch both of them with him
And that preacher nearly knocked me down, he said "OOOHHHH, I'm headin out that kitchen door. AHE!!!". I hollered "Fred, that kitchen ain't got no door in it," he said "Don't worry son, it will have in a minute" I AIN'T NEVER SEEN SO MUCH JUMPING AND SHOVIN BEFORE.
Cracks me up every time...
I think it says I hollered"Rev that kitchen aint got an door in it"
Me too
This reminds me of a funeral I went as a kid. A friend of my mother’s lost her mother suddenly. This was a woman who thought it great fun to call you over, fart and then walk away.
When she died, no one new it for three days, so by the time they had the funeral the body was starting to get, uhm… “gassy”. During the service, the body expelled some gas, loudly.
One of her daughter yells, “mother! Did you fart!?”
Most fun I’ve ever had at a funeral!
Had Fred Weasley lived... This would be his parting prank.
I know this comment is from years ago, but it made my day!!!!! ⚡🖤
I remember watching this on VHS with my grandpa lol, this was always my favorite, my mom hated it's me again Margaret cuz her name is Margaret
We played this music video at my grandpa's funeral
Love you mo pah pah
I grew up listening to him and I’m still listening to him and I’m 18❤️
Speaking for the dead.. "that's Ok, Ray..we'll wait, right here"
Y'all come back now, ya' hear? lol
This reminds me of my Dad, he was a big man - picture the prize fighter Butter Bean...and we went to a wake and my father went to kneel down but he leaned on the coffin and he made it tip upwards🤣🤣🤣 Jesus talk about scaring everyone out we thought the old lady was gonna roll out
I've heard dozens of Ray Stevens songs since I was a little kid. Guess we didn't have this album, 'cause this is my first time hearing this spOoOoOoky song. What a trip!
look up when he went to the church that handled snakes
Anyone watching in 2085?
How'd we skip to 2085 from 2024?
One of the best jokes put into song. I fell in a hole town drunk dug it.
Does anyone else think that this song is based on a true family story?