Bad Luck
(from the Internet 2003)
My wife just left and the well went dry.
My horse is sick and about to die.
My still blew up and the barn burnt down.
And the road washed out on the way to town.
 The dog got rabies and bit the cat.
And they both died right after that.
 I lost my specs and my pipe-stem broke.
 I can't even sit and read and smoke.
A tree fell right on the chicken shed,
And most the hens got smashed plumb dead.
Then a chimney fire took half the wall,
 And this old shack is about to fall.
I caught my heel on an old dead vine
 And sat smack dab on a porcupine.
 Then the beaver dam broke and my bridge washed out
And my watch stopped working and I've got the gout.
The bank foreclosed so I've lost my place.
 My cow disappeared without a trace.
They cut off my credit at the grocery store,
And I lost my job and a whole lot more.
I must have been hexed by a triple curse,
As things keep going from bad to worse.
 Now fate has hit me with a last dirty crack,
To top it all off, my wife's coming back.