We rode out of town to the woodpile Where we knew that old crooner would be A creature who answered ‘The Hedgehog’ A spiny old vermin was he We stood by his door with our pistols And stared past the dust clouds inside His home was just mess and disorder Convicted we just opened fire
Oh he panicked to run Out of the back and into the sun The bullets did fly but his body was shy Of the metal embrace from my gun
He was corned up against the barn doors He scratched at the walls for the sky His prayers for salvation were answered When the fire from our weapons ran dry Then one of the blood-gang got thinking As big as a mountain is high Lifted a rock up so easy And hurled it towards hedgehog’s spine
Oh hear the crack As bones are forced and bent back He lay on the ground without breathing a sound And we smiled at our winning attack
Now some months and days in the future When the pearl moon was covered in black I heard a familiar scratching And I knew that the hedgehog was back I went to the door and was greeted By a spiky old grin from the dark He’d come back to teach me a lesson About waving your own hand of God
Oh you failed in your deed You broke me but I didn’t bleed It took me a while and there was no fair trial But you can’t kill what lives innocently