Answer:
My life is often a volume of grief, your help is needed to turn a new leaf. Stiff is my spine and my body is pale. But I'm always ready to tell a tale.
What kinds of men are always above board?
Pirates put their booty in it.
A doctor might remove one from the neck of a Dracula victim.
Two in a whole and four in a pair. And six in a trio you see. And eight's a quartet but what you must get. Is the name that fits just one of me?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.