This boy named Eddie used to set the fields on fire   He's the only one I know who dared to name his desire   In a county where the dairy men all had milking machines   Eddie was the only one to separate the cream      Eddie and his father let the cows come home   They were out in the pasture in a late summer storm   When out of the blue, a lightning bolt came down   And where his father stood, smoking bones lay on the ground      Eddie Bonebrake      His father's remains lie in the Kelsey Cemetery   But dogs like to dig up the bones that we bury   You can burn a field but you cannot burn the sky   That took your father from you in the twinkling of an eye      But you can burn a field and send clouds of black smoke   Up into the heavens, praying God will choke   And now you know the story and you know it was not me   Or my friend who did it, it was that boy named Eddie      Eddie Bonebrake