The Ballad of Cal Oroville
At 92, he'd had enough and knew it was time to go.
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Lyrics
Cal Oroville sat on a bridge,
And there were rocks down below.
At 92, he'd had enough
And knew it was time to go.
Some men are born to kill,
Some men are born to die.
Cal had done his very best
To shut his landlord's eyes.
He tried to gut that bastard Lou
With a serrated knife,
But Cal was weak from cancer
That squeezed his lungs of life.
Cal stuck the knife into Lou's gut.
He pushed as hard as he could.
Lous fat gut absorbed the cut
And blood gushed where he stood.
Like every good American,
Cal got his day in court.
And Lou was called to testify
With a bandage on his gut.
The jury found Cal guilty
And sent him to Mesa Jail.
His bid was three hundred days
Inside a jailhouse cell.
The other convicts loved Old Cal
While he was in the clink.
They called him Pops and Cutter Cal
And snuck him booze to drink.
And when the convicts dealt the cards,
They let him cut the deck.
They let him watch his favorite show,
Old reruns of Star Trek.
Nobody ever visited,
He had no living kin.
That really didn't bother Cal
For he had found new friends.
His days crawled on with cancer,
His health became more frail.
He figured that he'd end his days
Inside of Mesa Jail.
Judge Marcos said his time was up
At three hundred days,
And he released Old Cutter Cal
But Cal loved the jailhouse ways.
He asked the Judge to change his mind
Or he'd try suicide.
The Judge unlocked the jailhouse door
And made Cal step outside.
His only friends were all locked up,
He had no family,
He knew he'd never get a job,
He was too elderly
At 92, he'd had enough
And knew it was time to go.
Cal Oroville stepped off that bridge
And hit the rocks below.
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