Written: Fort Bliss TX, fall 1967
It was while Knees was in the army (1967-1969) that he came up with the brilliant idea of doing a whole album consisting of epitaphs. Mercifully, the album ended up consisting of this one song, which is unusual (for Knees) in that it has a chorus in 5/8 time and an open guitar tuning.
He walked kinda funny shufflin along the ground
He talked kinda funny biting off the sound
He died with a footprint on his back.
He lived his life so rightly blinded by his mind
He took his life so lightly left it all behind
His tombstone said his name and nothing else.
Jonathan Canfield, it read
Although he was there in spirit only.
He loved his wife with passion
Till the day he died
She knew it was the fashion
So at his grave she cried
His tombstone fell to dust in thirty days.