| High class Slim came floatin' in Down from the county line.
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| Just gettin' right on Saturday night,
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| Ridin' with some friends of mine.
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| They invited me just to come and see
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| Just what was on their minds
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| And then I took my first long look
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| At the Master of Sparks on high.
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| In the back of Jimmy’s Mack
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| Stood a round steel cage
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| Welded into shape by Slim,
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| Made out of sucker gauge.
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| How fine, they cried, now with you inside,
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| Strapped in there safe and sound.
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| I thought, my-o-my, how the sparks will fly
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| If that thing ever hit the ground.
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| Slim was so pleased when I had eased
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| Into his trap of death.
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| He had slammed the door but I said no more
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| And I thought I’d breathed my last breath.
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| We was out in the sticks down Highway Six
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| And the crowd was just about right. |