Scarecrow Man written by David Olney (Red Lilly Music, ASCAP)
The black clouds scowled The cold wind howled The lightning stabbed like a knife The wild wolf cringed And became unhinged And he cried like a baby for his life This was no night for a man or a beast Confusion ruled on the land What fool would venture forth in this hell? Only the Scarecrow Man
With his eyes all ablaze And his voice cracked and crazed He was near swallowed up in the roar Abandoned and lost Tattered and tossed He beat on the farmhouse door 'For the love of God let me in!' he cried 'I'll die if you don't lend a hand.' He pleaded and he begged and he bellowed like the wind 'Have mercy on the Scarecrow Man!'
The old widow heard But she could not be stirred To answer those pitiful cries The storm grew in violence She clung to her silence She held to the safety inside She'd heard the rumors, the stories, the tales Of things she could not understand That filled her with anger and filled her with fear Of the cold blooded Scarecrow Man
The lightning did flash The thunder did crash The cattle were frozen in fear Curses and groans And unnatural moans Echoed in the tornado air The old widow sank and she breathed her last sigh And she died on the farmhouse floor The sun chased the clouds and the wind ceased to howl And the air was as still as before
The old widow's dead Her spirit has fled To some far and mysterious land But there by the door Is a handful of straw All that's left of the Scarecrow Man There by the door There's a handful of straw All that's left of the Scarecrow Man