johnny was a bad person.
johnny hated jackie.
jackie bored frankie.
jackie was easy to get along with, even though he bored frankie.
eddie was a good person.
sheriff john brown was easy to get along with.
a stranger came to town.
stagger lee had his eye on johnny, because they were both bad persons.
carl carter had been a guard at the state pen for 30 years.
the moon came up over the highway.
colonel johnson poured himself a stiff drink.
jackie remembered miss carlton - she was a nice person, and easy to get along with, like himself.
it started to rain.
one of the strangers was light, the other dark.
stagger lee and eddie went back a long way.
johnny, as previously noted, was a bad person.
sheriff john brown was a worse person.
mona starbuck remembered the last stranger who passed through town.
sheriff john brown ruled the town.
but he was easy to get along with as long as you did not cross him or get him riled up.
stagger lee and sheriff john brown understood each other.
eddie was a good person, but he was bad on occasion.
two strangers came to town.
the moon shone through the branches of the old oak tree.
a third stranger came to town.
and then another stranger came to town.
johnny was the jealous type.
stagger lee kept his eye on johnny, whom he suspected of designs on sweet sue, the farmer’s daughter.
nobody suspected that the first two strangers were sweet sue’s brothers.
and that the third was a pinkerton man.
what about the fourth?