Feeling Better

3Gun swiveled in the jail office chair

Staring at memories in the air

Bellows, Rivers, Frank and Sue

All gone, new futures to pursue

Rumours of things haunting from the past

Didn't let their new lives last

A brother of Hugh possessed with greed

Took their land for his selfish need

Now just a few folks left fighting to stay

But finding it tough to pay their way

Fields gone fallow, crops turned to weed

Wrongs need righting for them to succeed

Lorne was still down and no Deputy Mayor

It was 3Gun's job the paperwork to prepare

CG's been considered to fill that chair

Will Barter's been absent, he's never there

If she takes the job folks better be wary

I know CG and she can be scary . . .

He wrote to Justice, stating his concern

About the land, what he could learn

The Marshal's gonna think I'm a real pain

He was just here, now back again

This time about Lorne's attacker

Who turned out to be quite a yakker

'Shut your face or I'll shut it for ya!"

I sighed and longed for a glass of vodka

'You can speak on the gallows platform.

It'll be your last best chance to perform.'

I gathered the documents and signed the letter

Headed for the station office feelin' better

Things around BG are lookin' rather swell

Still got Deputy Myna and Billy's back as well

AJ and Ray are up and about

And Ruechari's returned from her walkabout

But right now for me it's a bath and some lilac

Then an afternoon nap in my favorite hammock