'I'm fighting to defend a lie.

And this moonshiny evening's fun

Is worse than aught I ever done.'

And thinking that way my heart bled so

I almost stept to Bill and said so.

And now Bill's dead I would be glad

If I could only think I had.

But no. I put the thought away

For fear of what my friends would say.

They'd backed me, see? O Lord, the sin