“Boom boom boom boom.
Gonna shoot you right down.
Right off your feet.
Take you home with me.
Put you in my house.
Boom boom boom boom.”

John Lee Hooker,

Boom Boom

It was the middle of February

Cabin Fever had truly set in

I needed to get out of the house

I needed a new adventure to begin

But never did I realize

This day would be so icy cruel

This particular winter escapade

Sure gave me those ice fishin blues

I woke up edgy and anxious

It was a frigid winter dawn

That’s when it suddenly hit me

A new idea had quickly spawned

I soon got on the telephone to my brother

Told him we were gonna try a winter sport

Told him to bring his wife and my nephew

And of course I dragged my wife - up north

We quickly drove up to frozen Green Lake

And I soon rented an old ice fishin shanty

And man was she ever a cozy wooden beauty

Even had a pot-bellied stove - mighty handy

My family wanted to carry all our gear

Out onto the vast frozen lake surface

I of course drove right out to the shanty

“Man, why are you people so nervous?”

I quickly cut some holes in the ice

While the ladies fixed us some lunch

But nothin was really bitin today

Maybe this had been a bad hunch

We sat there all day in that shanty

And as the sun was sinkin low

We climbed into my new truck

And were sadly headin home

That’s when we heard a big B-O-O-M

Then we soon heard a loud C-R-A-C-K

Before I knew what was even happenin

My family had jumped out the truck’s back

My truck had suddenly broken through the ice

It was about to go down the deep deep blue drain

But damn it anyway - it was a brand new truck

So of course I refused to get out – I’m insane

Luckily a Good Samaritan happened by

And threw me a long rope from his winch

I frigidly swam around to the back bumper

And tied my new truck to it – in a pinch

The Good Samaritan pulled me out of this wet jam

But as he did – B-O-O-M – two tires on my truck blew

Now I was really fit to be tied

Those damned tires were brand new too

After I finally bought two more tires

We were finally headin back home

No one in my family would speak to me

So I spent the next two months – alone

It was the middle of February

Cabin Fever had truly set in

I needed to get out of the house

I needed a new adventure to begin

But never did I realize

This day would be so icy cruel

This particular winter escapade

Sure gave me those ice fishin blues

©2005, Eddie ‘The Eskimo’ Kostro