sometime to return

soul asylum 1988
I was just out of law school
sent to deadwood as clerk for the eigth judicial circuit
judge warren johnson presiding
judges tschetter and moses in the wings
johns was the magistrate

i lived up on the high hill
just below the cemetary
containing bullock, hickok and calamity jane

porch in front and back
you could hear the rollers at the homestake
hear the siren when the cage
dropped into a flooded shaft

write a check at the bodega
buy a beer at the number ten
and finish it off in durty nelly's in the franklin hotel

kevin drove up from texas
we had some chunking chinese
and blasted soul asylum into the neighborhood