Well a buzzard is perched on the dam   Ahh ah ah ah aha   And I'm leaving this town now   Ahh ah ah       Well the store I used to work for   by the tracks   Sells shotgun shells and gasoline    out the back   Well a train blew by last months   as I recall   That conductor would not wave to   me at all      There's a shed up underneath the water tower   I hear strange sounds comin' out now at all hours   The day I finally got the nerve to look inside....   I saw animals hangin', skinned and tied      Chorus      Well I put one ear of corn in my pot   And I boil and I eat it on the spot   Well I wash the pot and I put it right back up...right next to the spatula      One night I was home readin' about the war   When I heard a foot step up on the porch   Well I got up slow and I pulled the shades aside   And I saw nothin' but a porch and the night      Chorus