I saw the above cover of a purported Irving Berlin song on Instagram and thought, “No way is that real” But reader, it IS. It appears in the “list of Irving Berlin songs” Wikipedia entry and Glenn Miller recorded it in 1941:
Many other artists followed Glenn in 1941, if we can believe whoever compiled everything on Secondhand Songs. I can’t blame them; this is catchy as hell.
“When they lay him twelve feet deep
I’ll be there to laugh not weep
When that man is dead and gone”