Larry Bradfield Poet Rhyme

The Hangman's Rope

There was once a lady
Known simply as Sadie
Who sang a sad and mournful tune

She never was cheerful
Sang songs that were tearful
At the old Bordertown Saloon

She once loved a young man
Who became a hung man
When he strayed outside of the law

He shot a bank teller
A handsome young feller
It beat all that we ever saw

He was buried they say
In six feet of red clay
Sadie visited each Sunday

But then she up and left
She stopped being bereft
Just fell in love on a Monday

She married the hangman
And that's what she sang, man,
Just the thought had given her hope

Forever she would be
For she had bedded he
The right end of the hangman's rope.

4-16-2020
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