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When the bullets hit the cabin On the Rat River run The Mounties came a knocking And the trapper kissed his gun He said, “Step right up, my darlings Step right up, don’t be shy” Then he lit the whole white morning With a red and wicked eye He was filth in human trousers He was frost in human skin He had a grin like a graveyard And a taste for mortal sin He wore the dark like velvet Wore the snow like wedding lace And the North itself went ugly At the laughter in his face Bad man, bad man Bad man on Rat River Bad man, bad man And the Lord said, ‘No, not ever’ Bad man, bad man With his boot heel on the law Bad man, bad man with hellfire in his draw Nobody knew his people Nobody knew his age He looked like something violence Had raised up in a cage They said, “Sir, we’ve got a warrant” He said, “Boys, I’ve got one too” Then he slammed it from the muzzle And it came out hot and blue He ran laughing through the deadfall With the whole world on his neck Dogs behind him, death beside him And no mercy left to check He slept mean beneath the pine boughs Ate like crows and drank like pain And the moon swung overhead Like a silver watch-chain Bad man, bad man Bad man on Rat River Bad man, bad man Lord, there never was one meaner Bad man, bad man With the ice all in his veins Bad man, bad man And the blizzard in his brains The North tried hard to kill him But it could not do the job He was hard as cheap religion He was cruel as any god A sergeant cried, “Now yield, sir!” He said, “Kiss my frozen ring” Then he rose up from the snowbank Like a dark and nasty king So the rifles cracked like Sunday At the end of Rat River road And the sky spat back the gunfire And the pines bent with the load He stood there taking metal Like a boxer takes applause Still grinning through the bloodwash With the devil in his jaws Bad man, bad man Bad man on Rat River Bad man, bad man And they never caught him living Bad man, bad man Now he’s snow and myth and bone Bad man, bad man dies there all alone