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If I Should Go
(Often Called – If I Should Die)
If I should go before the rest of you
Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone
Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voice
But be the usual selves that I have known
Weep if you must
Parting is hell
But life goes on
So sing as well.
Joyce Grenfell

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Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was a British institution and, in her time, one of the country’s best loved entertainers, immortalised in roles such as the gym mistress Miss Gossage in The Happiest Days of Your Life and Ruby Gates in the St Trinian’s films. She achieved success as a writer and performer of songs and monologues at a time when it was unusual for a woman of her social background to work.