Red Eye

Red Eye


Whole town done gone in alarm
  About all these brown rabbits,
Their numbers, and their nibblins’,
Their cotton tail lopin’ habits

Some are thinkin’ they’re infestin’,
  Sure there’s more this year than last,
I’ve see ‘em, and I’ve noticed,
Just I remember ‘bout years past

Comes a red tail hawk, about summertide,
  Perches on a roof top, or a bough real high,
Got a bloodshot stare, a real evil red eye,
Like, don’t ask why,
  He’s all pissed off at the blue sky

Last year, he snatched up all our rabbits,
  Then come again back for our yard’s little chipmunks,
By labor day, all four legged critters he’d expunged,
Excepting for late night ‘possums and skunks

And this year I’ve already seen him,
  With a clutched rabbit flying on the sly,
I think September’s comin’ early,
Now we got rabbits flyin’ by