The Judge Calls Out 4/4 Rock and Roll Shuffle

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Reverend Green had a full house daily

Rain had fallen for fourteen days
The Kid took his place unarmed, at the back of the wall

The Reverend stood to address them Neighbours!

He couldn’t stay out of these hell hell hell holes
A teamster quizzed the Kid about the Nacogdoches rain

Then an enormous man in an oilcloth slicker

Removed his hat after entering the tent
As bald as stone no brows no beard no lashes
Close to seven feet high with a smokin cigar
Even in this nomadic house of God

Replacing his hat after chasing the raindrops

Pushed his way forward to the crateboard pulpit
The giant turned to face the crowd, to address

Reverend Green had already stopped preaching

The giant with small hands he held them out
His face was strangely childlike then he said

I feel I must inform you of this imposter

No papers of divinity he holds
He's wanted by the law in Mississippi
Arkansas, Kentucky and in Tennessee.
The minister of the Lord who cannot read

A string of charges one a girl of eleven

Eleven years met with violation
Actually clothed in the livery of his God
The giant continued and he cited Arkansas
Said the Reverend was run out of Fort Smith
Stating that he also had congress with a goat

A lady fell in shock at the Reverend

The Reverend sobbed and cried, This is him.
This is him the Devil, here he stands
An ugly thug just wanted to hang him high.
Calling from the gallery to the rear
The Kid and the teamster back at the hotel gallery
Saw the tent start to sway and buckle like a
Wounded Medusa slowly settled, to the ground

Already the giant at the bar when they entered

Had set up the bar with two handful of coins
He raised his glass but of course, not to them

The Kid laid his whisky money down on the bar

The barman's thumb pushed the money back to him
He said These here drinks, is on the Judge
The Kid sees the giant who was the Judge
Men piled in to receive a drink

Pursuing the preacher now a posse was drawn

A question was put of the accused to the Judge
How did you come to have the goods on that no-account?

Goods? Said the Judge then he was asked of Fort Smith.

Where did you know him to know all that stuff on him?
I reckon you was in Fort Smith fore ye came out here

I was never in Fort Smith in my life. Doubt that he was.

They looked from one to the other.
I never laid eyes on the man before today.
Never even heard of him.
He raised his glass and drank it all in.

There was a strange silence in the room while the

Men looked like mud effigies.
Finally someone laughed. Then another.

Soon they were all laughing and laughing together.

Someone stepped up and bought the judge a drink
He was holding his own and He raised his glass and drank.