Sam McGee's Last Remains

Sam McGee was from Tennessee, with a cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the south to roam around the pole God only knows. He was always cold, but that land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell. But it ain't being dead, it's my awful dread of the icy grave that pains. So I want you to swear that foul affair, your cremate, my last remains.