Classic Poem

If the shack get raided
ain't no body run
If the shack get raided
ain't no body run
You stay right here till
Charlie Cherry come

Well he cut you if you stand
shoot you if you run
Well he cut you if you stand
shoot you if you run
You better stay right here till
Charlie Cherry come

Now he arrested my brother
tied him to a tree
Well now he arrested my brother
tied him to a tree
You could hear him crying,
Please don't murder me

Well now Charlie Cherry
meanest man I know
Well it's Charlie Cherry
meanest man I know
Well now you meet him in the morning
you don't know which-a-way to go

Well now where was you baby
when the wind blowed cold
Well now where was you
when the wind blowed cold
Well now you was in the bottom
by the red hot stove