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 of that phone rings, tell them that you haven't seen me If the phone rings, tell them 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 (Standing, on ceremony) X6