[00:32.81]High class Slim came floatin' in
[00:36.50]down from the county line.
[00:40.05]Just gettin' right on Saturday night,
[00:44.18]ridin' with some friends of mine.
[00:47.54]They invited me just to come and see
[00:52.03]just what was on their minds
[00:55.88]and then I took my first long look
[00:59.14]at the Master of Sparks on high.
[01:03.43]In the back of Jimmy's Mack
[01:07.05]stood a round steel cage
[01:11.11]welded into shape by Slim,
[01:14.94]made out of sucker gauge.
[01:18.81]How fine, they cried, now with you inside,
[01:22.42]strapped in there safe and sound.
[01:25.81]I thought, my-o-my, how the sparks will fly
[01:29.87]if that thing ever hit the ground.
[01:33.75]Slim was so pleased when I had eased
[01:38.02]into his trap of death.
[01:41.35]He had slammed the door but I said no more
[01:45.52]and I thought I'd breathed my last breath.
[01:49.48]We was out in the sticks down Highway Six
[01:52.69]and the crowd was just about right.
[01:56.63]The speed was too, so out I flew
[02:00.06]like a stick of rollin' dynamite.
[02:51.60]When I hit the ground you could hear the sound
[02:55.50]and see the sparks a country mile.
[02:59.16]End over end I began to spin
[03:02.98]but the ball started runnin' wild.
[03:06.66]But it was too late as I met my fate
[03:10.17]and the ball started gettin' hot.
[03:13.88]But through the sparks and the flame I knew that the claim
[03:17.85]of the Master of Sparks was gone.