Don’t Count Yer Downfalls Before They’ve Fallen

He set the table for no one to eat.

They were everyone gonna get beat

At cards.

He made the rules which was only no rules.

He would wind ’em up slippin’ on booze.

Then one by one, friendly, he’d use

Them.

Course they didn’t see it.

If they did, they couldn’t be it.

This thing that even buddy couldn’t hatch.

Barry