My name, I don't remember   Though I hail from Ohio   I had a wife and children   Good tires on my car   What took me from my home   And put me in the Earth   Was the mouth of a deep dark hole   I found behind my barn      We'd been filling it with garbage   As long as you could count   Kitchen scraps and dead cows   Tractors broken down   But never did I hear one thing hit the ground   And slowly I came to fear   That this was a bottomless hole      I went out behind the barn   And stared down in that hole   Late into the evening   My mind would not let go   So I got out my ropes and a rusty clawfoot tub   And I rigged myself a chariot   To ride down in that hole      My wife, she did help me   She fed me down the ropes   And then I sank away   From the surface of this world   When the last rope pulled tight   I had not reached the end   And in anger, I swung there   Down in that dark abyss      So I got out my knife   I told my wife goodbye   I cut loose from the ropes   And fell on down that hole   And still I'm there falling   Down in this evil pit   But until I hit the bottom   I won't believe it's bottomless