THE PLAGUE

In a dust bowl town in Oklahoma around the summer of '35 Sam Duncan got drunk and started talking about a plague that was coming around The bartender laughed as he cut him off and sent him on his way At the thought of drunken Duncan and that juiced old bum's dismay Two weeks later the virus hit and everyone went to bed The doctor was working overtime on the living and the dead Then the bartender remembered Sam Duncan's drunken remarks At exactly the day and hour that the rumors happened to start The doctor called it a virus The town folk called it a plague And if Sam called it down upon us We got only one person to blame Fear got the best of reason like dust gets the best of rain Sam got the worst of all, he took a bullet in the brain The Sheriff came down with the fever and no arrests were made The virus took its course and left the dust dancing over Duncan's grave The doctor called it a virus The town folk called it a plague And if Sam called it down upon us We got only one person to blame