rattler was a good old dog as blind as he could be but every night at suppertime i believe that dog could see here rattler here here rattler here call old rattler from the barn here rattler here rattler breaked the other night i thought he treed a coon when i come to find him he s barkin at the moon rattler was a friendly dog even though he was blind he wouldn t hurt a living thing he was so very kind one night i saw a big fat coon climb into a tree i called ol rattler right away to fetch him down for me but rattler wouldn t fetch for me because he liked that coon i saw them walking paw in paw later by the light of the moon grandpa had a muley cow muley since she was born it took a jaybird forty years to fly from horn to horn now old rattler s dead and gone like all the good dogs do don t put on the dog yourself or you ll be going there too