The Bottomless Hole

	  		

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My name I don’t remember though I hail from Ohio 
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I had a wife and children, good tires on my car 
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What took me from my home and put me in the earth 
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Was the mouth of the deep dark hole I found behind my barn 

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We’d been filling it with garbage as long as you could count 
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Kitchen scraps and dead cows, tractors broken down 
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But never did I hear one thing hit the ground 
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And slowly I came to fear, that this was a bottomless hole 

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I went out behind the barn and stared down in that hole 
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Late into the evening, my mind would not let go 
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So I got out my ropes and a rusty claw foot tub 
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And I rigged myself a chariot to ride down in that hole 

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My wife she did help me, she fed me down the ropes 
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And then I sank away from the surface of this world 
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When the last rope pulled tight, I had not reached the end 
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And in anger I swung there down in that dark abyss 

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So I got out my knife, I told my wife goodbye 
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I cut loose from the ropes and fell on down that hole 
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And still I am there falling down in this evil pit 
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But until I hit the bottom I won’t believe it’s bottomless 

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