Jack McGuire + 

They would have lynched me + 

Had I not been secretly hurried away + 

To the jail at Peoria. + 

And yet I was going peacefully home, + 

Carrying my jug, a little drunk, + 

When Logan, the marshal, halted me, + 

Called me a drunken hound and shook me, + 

And, when I cursed him for it, struck me + 

With that Prohibition loaded cane⁠— + 

All this before I shot him. + 

They would have hanged me except for this: + 

My lawyer, Kinsey Keene, was helping to land + 

Old Thomas Rhodes for wrecking the bank, + 

And the judge was a friend of Rhodes + 

And wanted him to escape, + 

And Kinsey offered to quit on Rhodes + 

For fourteen years for me. + 

And the bargain was made. I served my time + 

And learned to read and write. + 