The song In Memoriam is performed by Bobby Darin in the album named As Long As I'm Singing: The Bobby Darin Collection in the year 1995 .
He's a ruthless opportunist
And he motivates by greed
He's just the way his father was
And that we sure don't need
So they all cried out destroy him
For he wants to see us drowned
They never understood him
So they put him in the ground.
Now some had stood for hours
And some sat on the gra*s
Listening to their radios
For where the train had pa*sed
And a crowd will get impatient
As the clock hands turn around
They never understood him
So they put him in the ground.
They handed out some candles
To the somber weary crowd
And told us not to light them
Till our eyes beheld the shroud
Not even at that moment
Could there be tranquility
I could feel them push and argue
Hey, sit down, I cannot see
They never understood him
So they put him in the ground.
When the fathers closed their bibles
And the family left the site
The ropes and walls and hedges
Kind of faded in the night
Replaced by all the people
Who made a prayerful sound
They never understood him
So they put him in the ground.
Some people say the eighth of June
But the morning of the ninth
The workmen gently lowered him
By the beam of three work lights
Easy, take it easy
Set him down real slow
He'd been on some rougher trips
But he couldn't tell them so
They never understood him
So they put him in the ground.
Now no man has the answers
And he was just a man
And yet I can't help feelin'
That he knew a better plan
A shorter road to justice
On the trip that's freedom bound
But they never understood him
So they put him in the ground.
Bobby Darin - As Long As I'm Singing: The Bobby Darin Collection
- Early In The Morning - The Rinky-Dinks
- Don't Call My Name
- All The Way Home
- Lost Love
- Bullmoose
- The Right Time
- If A Man Answers
- Treat My Baby Good
- When I Get Home
- We Didn't Ask To Be Brought Home
- Funny What Love Can Do
- She Knows
- Easy Rider
- Everywhere I Go
- Sail Away
- The Gal That Got Away
- Won't You Come Home Bailey
- Minnie The Moocher
- Easy Living
- I Found A New Baby
- It's You Or No One
- Milord
- Two Of A Kind - Bobby Darin & Johhny Mercer w/Billy May & His Orch
- It Had To Be You
- How About You
- As Long As I'm Singing
- The Party's Over
- This Isn't Heaven
- My Funny Valentine (live)
- You're Nobody Till Somebody
- Hello, Dolly
- Once In A Lifetime (Only Once)
- Look At Me
- Charade
- Sunday In New York
- Somewhere
- There Ain't No Sweet Gal That's Worth The Salt...
- Silver Dollar
- Lover Come Back To Me
- Rainin'
- The Shadow Of Your Smile
- Mame
- Don't Rain On My Parade
- Beautiful Things
- The Curtain Falls (Live)
- You're The Reason I'm Living
- (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
- Sally Was A Good Old Girl
- 18 Yellow Roses
- Walking In The Shadow Of Love
- Work Song
- I'm On My Way, Great God (Live)
- Blowin' In The Wind
- The Girl That Stood Beside Me
- Reason To Believe
- The Lady That Came From Baltimore
- I Am
- Darling Be Home Soon
- Back Street Girl
- I'm Going To Love You
- Long Time Movin'
- Long Line Rider
- In Memoriam
- Me & Mr. Hohner
- Song For A Dollar
- Sweet Reasons
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (live)
- Simple Song Of Freedom (Demo)