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I know someone posted the first two lines, but it seems appropriate as a goodbye to post the full lyrics to the Carter Family standard that June performed. The Carter Family first recorded "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" in 1935.

I was standing by the window
On one cold and cloudy day
And I saw the hearse come rolling
For to carry my mother away

Will the circle be unbroken
Bye and bye, Lord, bye and bye
There's a better home a-waiting
In the sky, Lord, in the sky

Lord, I told the undertaker
Undertaker, please drive slow
For this body you are hauling
How I hate to see her go

I followed close beside her
Tried to hold up and be brave
But I could not hide my sorrow
When they laid her in the grave

Went back home Lord my home was lonesome
Missd my mother she was gone
All my brothers sisters crying
What a home so sad and lone