DESCRIPTION:
The idea comes from a story (below) about modern grave robbing in China. It could be a male/female call-and-response (like Amy Speace & John Fullbright/The Sea And The Shore,) but I wrote it without the bride's replies, This version is notes for a song. Music is crude approximation too.

Story link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/12176054/Shock-in-Chinese-village-as-womens-corpses-stolen-for-use-in-ghost-weddings.html

THE DOWRY (c)2016 Quackking Music/L.Honig
All rights reserved
Dm G and C eventually

COME AND BE MY BRIDE
WE'LL LIE HERE TOGETHER
I AM TIRED OF SLEEPING ALL ALONE
WILL YOU BE MY LOVER
WE'LL NEVER RISE AGAIN
MY BOYS'LL COME AND GET YOU
AND BRING YOU TO MY HOME

I'VE BEEN LYING HERE
SINCE 1851
AND THEY FORGOT ABOUT ME
FORGOT ALL ABOUT ME
MOONLIGHT ON THE ROADWAY
THE ROBBERS AND THE BLADE
OF DIRTY IRON
DID ME IN
STOLE THE PEARLS THAT I WAS BRINGING
TO MY DARLING
AS A DOWRY
AND THEY LAID ME IN THE GROUND
ALL ALONE
IT ISN'T RIGHT
ALL ALONE

I HOPE YOU LIKE IT HERE
IT ISN'T REALLY COZY
THE GROUND IS DAMP AND MUSTY
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
BUT OF COURSE YOU KNOW
YOU LIVE RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD
IN THE DIRT WE GO
STAY HERE FOR A LONG TIME
ALL ALONE
CAN YOU BLAME ME
I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN PINING
I KNOW BECAUSE YOU
WERE MEANT TO BE MY BRIDE
AND WHEN I NEVER CAME BACK
AFTER ALL MY HOLY PROMISES
YOU TOLD YOURSELF THAT I WAS JUST ANOTHER
BROKEN LIAR
SO YOU SOLD YOURSELF OFF
TO ANOTHER - CONSOLATION
AND YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE ALONE
UNTIL YOU DIED

COME AND BE MY BRIDE
WE'LL LIE HERE TOGETHER
I AM TIRED OF SLEEPING ALL ALONE
WILL YOU BE MY LOVER
WE'LL NEVER RISE AGAIN
I'LL PAY THEM WELL
MY BOYS'LL COME AND GET YOU
BRING YOU TO MY HOME
AND WE CAN REST