Murder In The Red Barn

There was a murder in the red barn
 A murder in the red barn
 The trees are bending over and the cows are lying down
 The autumn's taking over, you can hear the buckshot hounds
 The watchman said to Reba the the loon
 Was it pale at Manzanita, was it blind Bob the coon?
 Pin it on a drifter, they sleep beneath the bridge
 One plays the violin and sleeps inside a fridge
 There was a murder in the red barn
 Murder in the red barn
 Someone's crying in the woods, someone's burying all his clothes
 Now Slam the Crank from Wheezer slept outside last night and froze
 Roadkill has its seasons just like anything
 There's possums in the autumn and there's farm cats in the spring
 There was a murder in the red barn
 Murder in the red barn
 Now thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house
 Or covet thy neighbor's wife
 But for some murder's the only door
 Through which they enter life
 Now they surrounded the house,
 they smoked him out and took him off in chains
 The sky turned black and bruised and months of heavy rains
 Now the ravens nest in the rotted roof of Chenoweth's old place
 And no one's asking Cal about that scar upon his face
 'Cause there's nothing strange
 about an axe with bloodstains in the barn
 There's always some killing you've got to do around the farm
 A murder in the red barn
 Murder in the red barn
 The woods will never tell what sleeps beneath the trees
 Or what's buried beneath a rock or hiding in the leaves
 'Cause roadkill has its seasons just like anything
 It's possums in the autumn and it's farm cats in the spring
 A murder in the red barn
 Murder in the red barn
 Now a lady can't do nothing without folks' tongues wagging
 Is that blood on the tree or is it autumn's red blaze?
 When the ground is soft for digging
 and the rain will bring all this gloom
 There's nothing wrong with a lady drinking alone in her room
 But there was a murder in the red barn
 A murder in the red barn
 There was a murder in the red barn
 A murder in the red barn
 There was a murder in the red barn
 A murder in the red barn