The Sheriff of Nottingham

The Sheriff, not a pleasant sort Was learning of a bad report About a soul, Who stood defiant And swore an oath, to topple tyrants Who once was noble, but now has strayed Hell bend upon his rebels ways In Royal Forest, made a stand Against the laws of Nottingham The Sheriff Stood, filled with rage Summoning a timid Page Then handed him a scroll to bare To hang it in the public square Now on this scroll, for all to see Nailed upon the hanging tree A reward for those who could and would Give up this man called "Robin Hood" While the Sheriff still quite livid To his court he made it vivid The punishment for those fail To bring "The Prince of Thieves" to jail Not a Knight, dared to loom But all at once vacate the room Armed with shield, sword and mace They rode like they were being chased To be continued................. The Sheriff sent his noble Knights Sure, they would snuff out this blight And scatter wide this torrid bunch In time for him to sit for lunch But the outlaw had his plans To hide in secret every man On the grown and in the trees There covered with a million leaves There they made no sound at all When Sheriff's men had come to call They searched all day and at great cost But all they found, was they were lost With empty hands and shaken spirit Knowing their Lord, won't want to hear it Chose to run, they found the road That took them straight to Edwinstowe Friar Tuck, he came out first Said, "All this hiding builds my thirst" Little John said laughing so "We won the day without a blow" Robin smiled, but he knew That the Sheriff wasn't through And with such anger, he would send Crueler and much braver men to be continued.................. The Sheriff was beside himself And grabbed a scroll straight off the shelf There on the table, it was spread And this is what the Sheriff read "It's Nottingham the Prince shall come To see the Shire and how it's run And to speak to Nobles secret things To raise a ransom fit for a King " It wasn't long before the day That young Prince John was on his way Traveling the forest road Not knowing of this " Robyn Hode" When from the brush, trees, and ground Did all of Robin's men abound And challenged each and every man To drop his sword and make his stand The evil Prince, seemed not surprised But raised his hand and rolled his eyes And stayed his men, to sheath their swords Then yawned a bit and acted bored "Who's the leader of these men" Prince John spoke with toothy grin A man from a limb, jumped to the ground While forest filled with laughing sound "Good day my Lord" said Robin Hode "You must forgive my manner bold, But those whom wish a Forest stroll We must extract a modest toll" The Captain on his horse came forth His hand now gripped his sword of course To rob a Prince, this was far fetched Then heard the creaking bows now stretched The Captain counting arrow tips Left his sword upon his hip The Prince now stood in open coach Not taking lightly this reproach Prince John now spoke with deep distain To Robin Hood, this royal pain "Are you the leader of this band And do you know just who I Am" "Indeed I do Oh Nobel Sod, And now please fill my masons hod With the gold, I surely reason, Was meant to pay for acts of treason" The Prince turned red and fill with rage Once again called for his page And motioned him to lay all down The gold there on the naked ground So the Page unpacked the ass And spilled the coins upon the grass "Now your swords I'd like to see On this lawn in front of me" The Prince and men now both disarmed When Robin said,"Go, pass unharmed " So they rode on through the wood And cursed the man named Robin Hood.