Badger-Charlie Park

[ti:Badger] [ar:Charlie Park] [al:Barnswallow] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Badger - Charlie Park [00:17.87]It was late in the summer when the corn was fully grown [00:21.85]We'd gone for a swim in the pond on my uncle Henry's farm [00:25.51] [00:26.26]And when we got home we saw a badger in the yard [00:29.35] [00:30.55]Running flat out for a hole beneath the shed [00:33.55] [00:42.37]It disappeared into its den underneath the floor [00:45.73]And it was gone and Dad just said Goddamn [00:48.42] [00:50.76]Badger can't stay he'll kill you just like that [00:53.82] [00:54.58]Mean as any grizzly sneaky as any cat [00:57.93]And he went and got his gun and the closet in the hall [01:01.63]And pulled a 6-pack from the fridge and walked on out the door [01:05.35] [01:13.95]While Mom made us brush our teeth and get ourselves to bed [01:17.29]It's late and he'll be awhile was all that she would say [01:21.58]And I saw him in the twilight his 410 across his lap [01:25.43] [01:25.98]Sitting in a lawn chair staring at the shed [01:29.06] [01:37.54]A fallen soldier from the 6-pack laying at his feet [01:41.20]And sometime in the night a gunshot woke me from my sleep [01:44.63] [01:53.27]It was late in the summer when the corn was fully grown [01:56.58]We'd gone for a swim in the pond on my uncle Henry's farm