HIM, JIM, BILL AND ME
(Dick Feller)


Kenny Price - 1971



I was a stockin' headed stick horse and Him was a little boy
And of all the things Him found to play with, I was Him's favorite toy
We rode all over the big backyard and around the big oak tree
And from the first day Him found Jim and Bill, it was Him, Jim, Bill and me

I never knew from where they came or how they ever met
Just all of a sudden there they were, just as close as friends can get
We roped and rode and cussed and sang way out in the big backyard
That's before Him's dad had the patio built and had the basketball court tarred

I wanna tell ya it was wild in those days out by that big oak tree
And they mighta lost the whole backyard if it wasn't for Him, Jim, Bill and me
Then there was the day that the neighbour kids came and asked why they couldn't see
They musta been meanin' Jim and Bill 'cause I know they saw Him and me

Him said, "Why can't you see ol' Jim standin' by the side of me
And Bill sleepin' yonder with his hat pulled down in the shade of that big oak tree"
Of course the kids just laughed at first, but I knew they could see
'Cause pretty soon we were playin' together, the kids, Him, Jim, Bill and me

Why I could tell ya o' many a day of keepin' the law in hand
'Cause on the other side of that big white fence was a Mexican borderland
An Oklahoma territory, clear to the clothes line it spread
Then New York City and Texas were divided by the flower bed

One day we even chased some pirates across the Persian Sea
And we whipped every one of 'em single handed, just Him, Jim, Bill and me
But then the days grew far between that I'd answer Him's whistle call
And after that one short summer, Him didn't even come at all

Oh well, Him was a-gettin' a little heavy, I was losin' my mane
So they put me to graze in this dusty ol' attic away from the wind and rain
Now a silly mouse told me just last week that Him's a-goin' to a college school
Now I don't know whether to believe it or not 'cause that mouse is kind of a fool

What's that you say, Him's grown up now, why that could never be
'Cause the day that Him's really grown up, there'll be no more Jim, nor Bill, nor me



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - November 2018)