Inspired by a Thunderstorm
I Watched Developing Last Night,
And By A Very Tragic Old Tale
Music: The Thunder Rolls,
By Garth Brooks
It seems each and every time
Any thunderstorm rolls my way
I think about a story that I was told
By an extremely sad old man one day
I was eatin dinner in a quaint old tavern
Up in the woods, of northern Wisconsin
When I eventually spotted a sad old man
He was drinkin all alone, his tonic and gin
He soon asked me if I was fishin
And I quickly told him that I was
That’s when he looked me in the eye
And he told me about his best pal, Gus
He said that it was way back in the 1950s
He and Gus were out there a fishin one day
When a real monstrous spring storm sprang up
So they sped off toward safety, in Thunder Bay
The evil banshee north winds began a howlin
And the thunder, it rolled across the black sky
Lightning struck Gus in the front of their boat
And his friend was dead, in the blink of an eye
He said he had to take his friend back to town
And explain to Gus’s wife what had happened
And then he said, for the past fifty some years
He had wished that evil storm, had gotten him
The old man said he hadn’t been fishin since
Since that tragic day, way back in May of 1954
And I spotted that old man’s eyes mistin up again
As he slowly got up, and he shuffled out that door
And now, each and every time,
Any thunderstorm rolls my way;
I think about the sad tale I was told,
By an extremely sad old man one day.
That thunder, it still rolls,
And that lightning, it still strikes;
Although over fifty years have passed,
For him, it’s yet another sleepless night.
©2008, Mr. Ed
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Nothing sober more a fisherman than the story of the dead of another frisherman.
Georg
Fee
Blessings,
Joyce B.
Blessings, Appreciation, and Love ~~ Micke
Peace,
Dan
Many a man and beast has been felled by Mother Nature,
Especially in the lakes and seas, if you please!
But 'tis sad the old lad did forego the wishin' of further fishin'.
T'weren't the fish who done Gus in, t'was the Lightnin' -
He shoulda begin agin' !
peace, tom.
Looking for more like this, michael guy
((((HUGS)))) and love, Karla.
Sad story but it kept my interest.
God Bless,
Lew