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Last night I dreamed I took a trip up in the deep blue sky,
And everyone up there looked sad as if they were gonna cry;
And then I asked a gentleman who was trying not to weep,
Well, we're havin' court for them two boys who stole Aunt Martha's sheep.
Oh, we walked up to a building with walls of solid gold,
And when they opened up the door a sight I did behold:
It was the strangest audience, some were white and some were dark,
At first I thought that I was in a room in Noah's Ark.
Well, the judge came out and took a seat with his gavel in his hand,
He hit the table, then he roared, "Witness on the stand!"
Then I saw the strangest thing, it almost made me laugh,
For up there in the witness stand was the old cow and her calf.
She started tellin' her story about that fated night:
"I heard somebody comin' and then I saw the light;
As they were gettin' closer, well I could hear them laugh,
And all at once I realized they were out to steal my calf.
"I stood there waitin' for them as they came into my pen,
One short hook of my two arms, they turned around again;
We listened as they walked away and then went back to sleep,
I guess as they were leavin' they musta grabbed the sheep."
Aunt Martha was the next in line to sit upon the stand,
She told us of her lovely sheep she reared from just a lamb;
Little was their supper since their mother said goodbye,
Aunt Martha sat there cryin' as the teardrops filled our eyes.
And then in walked the Mountie, in the stand he took his place,
Slowly looked around the room, a smirk upon his face;
He said that he received the word a thief was on the loose,
But he was sure to the day he died, the meat he ate was moose.
And then at last the moment came, we all jumped in our seats,
For sittin' there in the witness stand was Aunt Martha's sheep;
We were all shocked to see her and we knew it was a ghost,
We thought of the meat the Mountie did eat and the piece we had to roast.
And then she told a story, it almost broke our hearts,
She spoke about her little lambs, from them she had to part;
She said, "These boys were out for fun and didn't have a care."
And then she slowly pointed, "That's them. They're sittin' there."
Well, the judge rose up from his seat with sorrow in his eyes,
At first he looked at Aunt Martha and then he looked at the boys:
"What makes men do things like this I'm sure I'll never know,
I sentence you to twenty years in the hot place down below"
To any of you who heard this song who plan to steal a sheep,
I suggest you go out to the store and buy yourself some meat;
For you may fool the Mountie and you can tell a lie,
But you'll have to face the charges in the courtroom in the sky.