Strong Side of Wrong

Seen a lot of living in that bootlegger’s world 
Backroom poker games quite a show
Learning lessons better left unlearned
A good thing daddy didn’t know

The Perry County border’s cheapest beer 
Bought for four dollars a case
A dollar fifty for a half pint of whiskey
Hard to drink that without a chase

Making fourteen dollars on the beer
Three made on the hard stuff 
Now I know how he paid off the law
What was left was still making enough

Wouldn’t have learned the dark kind of strong
If I hadn’t seen that side of wrong

Won’t say I didn’t like outlawing
Saints and outlaws ain’t the same thing
I knew I was seeing life on the edge
In the outlaw world only say what you mean

Outlawing is a different education 
Learning the hard side of right and wrong
I won’t say it was upright learning
Outlaw learning taught me to be strong

Wouldn’t have learned the dark kind of strong
If I hadn’t seen that side of wrong

JBentley-11May2024