Before I kick the bucket, give me a moment to explain.<\/p>\n
Go on, child, git yerself a seat and listen.<\/p>\n
Down on the bayou, you know the way,<\/p>\n
on an elbow of land and a bend,<\/p>\n
past Creole music and that ol’ carport,<\/p>\n
sits a stump, with a rusty bucket ‘longside.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
That’s where I met the Devil.<\/p>\n
Tall skinny man, wit’ a black beard thicker’n oil,<\/p>\n
an’ a voice smoother’n silk, soft as butter,<\/p>\n
which when I remember sends a tremor all the way down,<\/p>\n
an’ that smell, like suga and cinnamon sweet and spice.<\/p>\n
Beet red and summer heat all rolled in one.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
An though my eyes are old, my ears are not,<\/p>\n
an’ I can hear the golden fiddle still.<\/p>\n
They say I beat the Devil at his own game,<\/p>\n
but we both known better.<\/p>\n
Pride cometh befo’ the fall, and he had fallen<\/p>\n
before I tricked him in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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