The Herdsman Mishap

Said I went down by the river
And drew my gun
Ive killed every damn bird and I take no plea
And In a harmonious blaze, a fall of cloth
Then outrages silence, and the weather stops
Then proceed

And the hissing of a match, and a light of my smoke
Outdanced the swirly ghost
From a bloom of red
The fallen ash blows in song
And out grows from the soil, my lovers arm
And the shivers run upstream
And I ask myself were I went wrong
And I tell it to whoever can ignore my faults
'Cause Katie, Katie lover, I loved you after all
I could be a deader man