THE DEVIL’S RIGHT HAND

Jerry Harding was an honest man

And worked hard to earn all he can,
William the Bully attacked his farm
And Jerry feared his life might come to harm,
Having faith in God and his God given sense
Jerry fired his gun in the name of self defence.

Little did Jerry know that
To the local cop William was a friend,
And in everything they did
They were hand in hand.

Slaps on his face and whips on his sole
“Enough enough” cried out Jerry’s soul,
Under the pain inflicted upon his at the time
Jerry soon confessed he has committed a crime.

“You blindly heeded the devil’s call!
And don’t see the writing on the wall!
You’re getting thirty years my friend
for the gun is the devil’s right hand.”

“Well in life now I have no hope
and the law might as well be hung by a rope,
Your honour, I don’t think you understand
for Man is the devil’s right hand.”

Within his solitary cell
Jerry seems to falsely realize,
That in his plight
not even does God sympathize,
It is in times like these the almighty gets a brand
‘The great big God is the devil’s right hand’

© Nitesh Kotecha