Weeping willow tree
shady relief for dinner
sweaty gravediggers

Inspired by Tom T. Hall’s Ballad of Forty Dollars.

Here is a good story on how “The Storyteller” found his voice.

No longer in the replication business, Hall penned songs that were as dagger-sharp as Raymond Carver short stories, songs written in an educated-yet-unadorned style that, along with the works of Kris Kristofferson, John Hartford and Mickey Newbury, helped alter and elevate the language of country music.

“… educated-yet-unadorned” and “…alter and elevate the language” — Now there is a goal for Hillbilly Haiku writers.