"Look" he told me
"all those little children dying
In the trees" and I said, "What?"
And he said, "look"
And I went to the window and sure enough
There they were hanging in the trees
Dead and dying
And I said, "What does it mean?"
And he said
"I don't know it's authorized"

The next day I got up and
They had dogs in the trees
Dead, and hanging, and dying
And I turned to my friend and I said
"What does it mean?" and he said
"Don't worry about it
It's the way of things they took
A vote it was decided"
And the next day it was cats
I don't see how they caught all those cats
So fast and hung them in the trees
But they did and the next day it was horses
And that wasn't so good because
Many bad branches broke
And after bacon and eggs the next day
My friend pulled his pistol on
Me across the coffee and said
"Let's go" and we went outside
And here were all these men
And women in the trees
Most of them dead or dying
And he got the rope ready and I said
"What does it mean?" and he said, "It's
Authorized, constitutional
It past the majority"
And he tied my hands behind my
Back then opened the noose
"I don't know who's going to
Hang me" he said
"When I get done with you
I suppose when it finally works down
There will be just one left and
He'll have to hang himself"
"Suppose he doesn't" I ask
"He has to" he said, "It's authorized"
"Oh" I said, "Well
Let's get on with it"