Remember your manners
  will you please take your hat off
  Your mother is dying
  listen to her cough
  
  We were always standing on ceremony
  We were always standing on ceremony
  
  Can't you show some respect please
  although you didn't in real life
  Your mother is dying
  and I god damn well hope you're satisfied
  
  We were always standing on ceremony
  We were always standing on ceremony
  
  So please play another song on that juke box
  Please play another pretty sad song for me
  And if that phone rings, tell them that you haven't seen me
  If that last phone rings
  tell them that you haven't seen me for weeks
  and this one here's on me
  
  Standing on ceremony, standing on ceremony
  Standing on ceremony, standing on ceremony
  Standing on ceremony, you were always standing on ceremony