County Fair

Well, the county fair left quite a mess

In the county yard

Kids with eyes as big as dollars

Rode all the rides

Strip artists and con artists

Put on quite a show

And made some money

Then left town

Where they went, I don’t know

"Hey, all you suckers,"

I heard a fat woman say

"Come on in for fifty cents

You can stay in here all day"

So I took a chance

I went inside

Wasn’t much there to see

So I asked her for my money back

And she just smiled at me

Saw Princess Tonika takin' off all her clothes

Rode some rides and played some games

Saw the Wild Man from Barneo

There was a black man playing the blues

Talked to some friends I hadn’t seen in a while

Threw a football through a hoop

Well, I saw them loading up their trucks

Taking down the rides

Folding up all the tents

There’s a full moon in the sky

Some were laughing, some were cussing

As they worked

Saw one of them making love

To a local girl

I was minding my own business

It was quarter after two

When a fella walked up and said

"Hey, man

I remember you"

And then he shoved me

And pulled out his knife

Stuck me three times in the chest

And I died that night

For the life of me I can’t remember

Who he was

And why he’d put a knife in me

In that dusty parking lot

Everybody said

What a shame it was

"But he knew better than staying out

Past twelve o’clock"

Some people put no value

On a human life

And there are places we all go

That just ain’t safe at night

If somebody'd do this to me

They might do it to you

So be careful where you go

And what you say or do

Well, the county fair left quite a mess

In the county yard