The Gentleman…More Animal Than Man
8.11.2018
Sir William McKann
The gentlemen’s gentleman
And Cypress Sheen
Cy’s lean and mean
Two men
But really one and the same
Same man
Different looks
Different personas
And different names
What’s his angle
What’s he up to
Why’s he do it
What’s his game
No one knows
Much less how
Sir William and Cy
Are one and the same
No one knows
As two
One’s playing
A kill the killers game
First as Sir William,
Rides into town
Ties his horse
To see what’s up
But all to learn
What’s goin’ down
The ultimate gentleman
From head to feet
The Duke of Wins Her
Sweeps the ladies off their feet
Gets to know everyone
In the bad stricken town
Learn’s the good that’s up
And what brings her down
What brings her to tears
What brings her to laughter
But it’s the bad seeds
Sir William McKann is after
Learns their names
Learns their games
Learns their patterns
Plans and gains
They don’t know
But all the same
They wouldn’t want
On his list of names
When he’s learned enough
When he’s got his own plan
Is when he hits the trail
Never see him again
‘Least not as the gentleman
Sir William McKann
Months have passed
Nothing’s changed in town
But everything’s changed for Sir McKann
He’s molted all they knew of him
More animal than gentleman
He’s gaunt and bearded
Lost so much weight
Doesn’t look, walk, talk
Or even smell the same
Doesn’t want to
All part of his plan
A different kind of mission
Takes a different kind of man
Now Cypress Sheen
He’s got the list
Now Cypress Sheen
Controls the plan
Those on the list
Those he is after
Knows their business
Knows their plans
Knows the blood
On all their hands
Knows where they’ll be
And when
Doing what to whom
And then
When they retreat
Catch them off guard
Dealt them the reaper
Now force their card
Cy Sheen
Lean and mean
Six-shooters in each hand
Brings the thunder
Rains the bullets
Puts six feet uppers
Six feet under
Why’s he do it
Why this plan
When a good town suffers
From a bad man’s plans
That man loses his right
For which to stand
Six feet up
On the fine town’s land
And when it’s all
All said and done
Cy hits the trail
His work is done
Leaves stories to tell
By the good townspeople
Happy to ring death’s bell
From their good church steeple
For the men who put
Their good town through hell
Cy knows
Again
Time to transform
Cocoon to chrysalis form
Time again to become
Sir William McKann
Time to find a new town
Thirty-third in his sights
Thirty-second one down
The cycle begins
Come the calm
Before the thunder
The filtering rain
How it ends
With listed names
Six feet under
Leaves a good town good again
When stricken bad
How it began
Sir William McKann
The gentlemen’s gentleman
And Cypress Sheen
Cy’s lean and mean
As two
One’s forming
A list of killer’s names
As two
One’s playing
A kill the killers game
Each bullet has a chamber
Each bullet has a name
Six-shooters in each hand
Brings the thunder
Rains the bullets
Puts six feet uppers
Six feet under
It’s all part of his plan
The two
Are one
The gentleman
Sir William McKann
