The Bottomless Hole

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My name, I don't remember
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Though I hail from Ohio
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I had a wife and children
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Good tires on my car
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What took me from my home
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And put me in the Earth
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Was the mouth of a deep dark hole
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I found behind my barn

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We'd been filling it with garbage
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As long as you could count
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Kitchen scraps and dead cows
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Tractors broken down
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But never did I hear one thing
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hit the ground
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And slowly I came to fear
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That this was a bottomless hole

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I went out behind the barn
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And stared down in that hole
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Late into the evening
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My mind would not let go
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So I got out my ropes and a rusty
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clawfoot tub
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And I rigged myself a chariot
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To ride down in that hole

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My wife, she did help me
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She fed me down the ropes
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And then I sank away
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From the surface of this world
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When the last rope pulled tight
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I had not reached the end
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And in anger, I swung there
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Down in that dark abyss

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So I got out my knife
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I told my wife goodbye
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I cut loose from the ropes
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And fell on down that hole
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And still I'm there falling
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Down in this evil pit
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But until I hit the bottom
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I won't believe it's bottomless