So, I enjoy
The Walking Dead quite a bit. It's not my favorite show, but I watch every week and love the fact that they are making bold deviations from the source material (the comic book just published its ninety-fourth issue, so there's a lot of material to be mined). Anyway, this week featured a shocking character death which surprised few people who follow the showbiz scuttlebutt, but it was nevertheless a sad moment for the show. I wanted to comment on it in some way, and somehow Johnny Cash's
Folsom Prison Blues got into my head (which is not a rare occurrence, by any means).
So, without further ado, and
SPOILER ALERT:
Hershel's Farmhouse Blues:
I hear the walker comin'
It's shamblin' 'round the bend,
And we ain't seen Sophia,
Since I don't know when,
I'm stuck in Hershel's farmhouse,
And time keeps draggin' on,
But that walker keeps a-shamblin',
Meat hangin' from the bone.
When Carl was just a baby,
Lori never told him, "Son,
Always be a good boy,
Don't ever play with guns,"
If he'd shot that creekbed walker,
Just to watch it die,
We'd be down one more bullet
But Dale would be alive.
If I get enough feedback, I might even finish the last two verses.
