Straw in the Wind

He rode in from the west with an eye for a dollar to make

He pitched us a sale about healing and oil from a snake

The barkeep, he warned him but the man did not comprehend

How strangers round here disappear like straw in the wind

Too young, but in love when she met him in some northern town

He treated her good till the sun and the whiskey went down

Did the bruise on her face test the patience of all of her kin?

Or do strangers round here disappear like straw in the wind?

Ol' Jim runs his mouth when he drinks since his wife passed away

But he's good to the kids and the crops that he sells are fair trade

But a traveling man had enough and took a pipe to his chin

That traveling man disappeared like straw in the wind

If the mouth of this river could talk

Here's what it would say

If you come here with good in your heart, you'll be on your way

Oh, but I'm not the one here who judged another man's sin

Or made strangers round here disappear like straw in the wind

Oh, but strangers round here disappear like straw in the wind