Ray Stevens - "Sittin' Up With The Dead" (Music Video) REACTION *MUST WATCH* 😂

[@raystevensmusic]

So glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

[@gorystorytime]

Mr Stevens, I love that you comment on so many people reacting to your music. I was raised on your stuff from my grandma and my father. I'm a huge fan

[@lisaevansthefam2425]

@@gorystorytimesame here and I love his music!

[@spikebeans9563]

Lmbo. I love this song. One of my favs of Rays. He has so many good ones. Thanks. Great reaction.

[@DTSQUAD]

Lol so funny. Thank you!

[@michellewalters7097]

I want this played at my funeral, lol 😂

[@DTSQUAD]

😂😂😂

[@numberonesongs4444]

If you want to hear his true singing song you should listen to his song titled Everything Is Beautiful. Also another funny song titled The Streak.

[@suchendelokidottir5673]

There are so many amazing Ray Stevens songs. Guitarzan, It's Me Again, Margaret, The Shriners Convention

[@SIR-DanielHunter]

Try living in a old 1800s antebellum home. We live in one in Canton Ms they kept a casket in a glass case. It scared a lot of people. There was always something strange going on there was I think 10 bed rooms 4 baths. A huge house. But was a run down dump. Only had fire places to keep us warm . But me and my friends would hang around the mausoleum room where the casket was and try and make as much noise as we could to wake up that dead. One day I think we did we was jumping up and down yelling and all the sudden the door slammed the smoke detector flew across the room back then. If you could afford one it was huge like bigger than a serving platter. It was hot but it turned cold enough we was breathing smoke. We never that again,😮😂

[@DTSQUAD]

Omg oh noooo! I would stay up all night lol. I bet yall learned yall lesson 🤣

[@BoxerRick]

😂😂😂😂I love it! That would made me jump out of my skin

[@karenpowell6063]

I remember when ppl used to sit up with the dead . As a child the thought of that gave me the shivers

[@DTSQUAD]

I couldn't do it

[@darthroden]

The older generations didn't treat death as a taboo the way some of us today do. For them it was normal to show respect for the dead. Even today some families will have wakes that go all night with the body and coffin in the living room, or at least the Urn and the deceased's best picture (most folks tend to go with cremation these days).

[@triman95]

Its true, they used to do this (Particularly in the South). Many houses have a room referred to as a parlor, and those rooms always had double doors. The double doors made room to get the coffin in and out of the room. Its also how the term "funeral parlor" got started. At least, thats how it was told to me. :)

[@DTSQUAD]

Oh.... wow

[@leslieking6259]

The last time I "sat up with the dead" was 1989 when my husband's grandmother die. She was laid out at the church instead of at home. This was southeastern Kentucky.

[@DTSQUAD]

@@leslieking6259 oh... wow

[@ronileigh9336]

I hope Ray Stevens sees your reaction. He would love it. Ray also gave someone permission to play his videos on their video.

[@DTSQUAD]

Thank you so much!

[@tonymitchell5067]

Just found this, but when i was a child in the early 70's I was about 7 years old my great grandmother passed the family set up with her in her house when she passed. So this really did happen.

[@DTSQUAD]

Wow. My grandparents told me about it being true

[@CelestialKitsune13]

We didn't be a funeral home built in my town till the mid 90's so as a kid I remember sitting up with the dead. So this is actually my favorite Ray Stevens song, most likely because I can relate to this weird situation that most people today actually wonder if it even happened or not.😹

[@DTSQUAD]

Oh... wow that's very interesting

[@ronhunt9396]

Gone to soon. So funny. Great video

[@DTSQUAD]

Thank you

[@phyllissmith6519]

I lov÷ this video. It's hilarious!!!

[@rachelginter3616]

This is my favorite of Ray's...lol..thank you for this reaction ❤😂

[@DTSQUAD]

Lol you're welcome

[@pamb2734]

Sitting up with the dead is called a Wake, it’s still common with Native Americans, but they’re usually held at the funeral home now but in the home is not unheard of. Too, this is why it’s said that old historical houses are haunted.

[@talkswithchris2394]

I enjoyed your reaction the gentleman who played Uncle Fred his name is Bill bygre he's a very sweet man and those were actually real chains that they put on his legs he told me himself it was a funny music video I wish your channel all the success

[@DTSQUAD]

Thank you so much

[@richardcarpenter7429]

My grandmother was laid out at her home back in the 50's I was 7 or 8

[@DTSQUAD]

Oh..... wow

[@shilohauraable]

I really enjoyed this reaction! 💖 I just subbed!

[@DTSQUAD]

Thank you. Welcome to the family ❤️

[@mikegreer1599]

Yep

[@paulahill3294]

I really enjoyed your reaction😂😂😂 you need to do a reaction to Too Drunk to Fish , and The Streak .

[@DTSQUAD]

Lol thank you. Will do!

[@bert0522]

That happened at an old girlfriends uncles funeral. Jim

[@wcwindom56]

This still occurs in some areas of the country

[@DTSQUAD]

This is so creepy 😳

[@kathiebishop4742]

I’ve been to one of these

[@DTSQUAD]

Omg spooky huh?

[@glasswhisperer]

Yep, me too. Here in SC we still call the visitation and everything before the funeral the "sitting up"

[@johnlong9534]

Wow, first time I have seen you. great reaction . New subscriber here.

[@DTSQUAD]

Thank you. Welcome to the family 😁

[@donstand2195]

They did when I was 6 and I've had nightmares ever since

[@DTSQUAD]

I bet omg

[@RobertDobbins-v4m]

😅😅

[@EvergreenFlame]

My dad told me about a long-ago relative who died sitting against a wall. The mortician put a stone on his chest to hold him down. The stone shifted that night, and the deceased relative sitting up with him went straight through a window. I'm glad I never had to do that

[@DTSQUAD]

Ouu that's creepy 😳

[@katrinaprescott5911]

Consider this a vote for Shriner's Convention. I don't think anybody has reacted to it.

[@sandralorenz1796]

Way back when, before this time period, the reason for sitting up with the dead was to keep rats away from the corpse.

[@DTSQUAD]

😳 I see that reason

[@1lthrnk]

If you live way out of society and it’s hard to drive the they have had a diener, a morgue worker, is responsible for cleaning and handling a corpse before embalming. Some of the steps involved in preparing a body for embalming include at the house

[@EvergreenFlame]

Deceased's relative, not deceased relative ☺

[@pinoakie4349]

is reacting talent?

[@DTSQUAD]

What do you believe?