The Rider Environs

Card trick for Sale

Try this one on for size

can thine eye fine as it were

be glanced down and seize

the prize not where it was,

but where it be here

Sir, watch here

Put faith in thine eye

Like faith in the Lord

For right here in the gambling dive

Soul and trick alike are bought and sold

By the one friend

who is friend to all friends

until the bitter burning

End

Ramshackle

The Blind Bandit Ramshackle

Once lit a knife with candlelight

and cut out the pock ridden eye

and burned the bridge of sight

The Blind Bandit Ramshackle

Stalked horizons grey

Ill-fitted the name that rode before him

For one eye remained

And with one Eye

Ramshackle kept astray

From day to day

And against the night's sky

Ramshackle lead a life of robbery and Murder

For the Blind Bandit believed not in God

The All smity

He believed in the bullet, the blade

And the grave further

Mr. Preacher

Trying to grasp the things beyond his Reach

Mr. Oliver Teach sought to understand the Word of God

Which he had learned to Preach

He knew its weight in Gold in blessed hands

But alas, his heart remained empty and bleak