Here's my transcription from Hobie Kytr's cassette DOG SALMON.
Jinx Davis mostly sang his own very wonderful songs about Oregon,
but he liked this one of Hobie's. The tape is also by Dave Berge,
but isn't clear if he helped write this one.


DEAD KID'S DROP
Hobe Kytr (and Dave Berge?)

How well I remember those games that we did play
On that old rotten trestle by the way.
There was games of 'double dare you' and 'plenty hell to pay'
One more time we forgot what Momma did say:

(Chorus):
Don't go down to that trestle, I don't want you playing there.
The beams are all rotten and it's too high in the air.
They don't call it 'dead kid's drop' for nothing, you know,
So down to that trestle I forbid you to go.

Oh, me and Dan and Jake-o we was a lively crew
Not to mention little Sandy, pretty and hadue (?)
We'd race across the canyon, do her back again,
Run stark wild naked in the pouring rain.

Chorus

And then there was that time my foot slipped between the ties--
I was caught in the act, ain't no use to telling lies.
They ran to get by daddy and pretty soon it led
To that slim willow switch out behind the tool shed.

Chorus

Well that trestle's still standing, but some the worse for wear,
And I wouldn't run across on a quadruple dare.
When I look back on those days that I did
You know it scared me enough back when I was a kid.

Chorus