If you can play on the fiddle
How's about a British jig and reel?
Speaking King's English in quotation
As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze
In the generation
Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise
"Oh, it's fifty questions time is it? Well, I shall answer your questions one for one as you answer mine. Goose and gander. Fair enough?"
The rooster crows again. Tarzan smirks.
"I'll start with an easy riddle for you. Why does an African rooster crow at night?"
"Because day's work is never done. We can't stay up too late nor rise too early."
"That's plausible, but the real answer is simple: because he wants to. You fellows are always looking for some big picture answer. Sometimes the answer is very simple. You know what people do? They do exactly what they want to do."
I respond quickly, "And likewise, people don't do whatever it is they don't want to do, unless, of course they are forced."
Our eyes engage each other. Neither of us blink. Finally, Tarzan raises his brandy sniffer.
"Cheers."
He throws back the entire shot.
"Shall we walk some, old chap?"
"Tarzan, I don't want to walk with you."
"Why, afraid you might learn something?"
"The only thing I want to learn from you is how to kill you."