Legend of Sleepy Hollow	
			copyright Wanda C. Metcalf  2012


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Ichabod Crane was a school teacher and the oddest looking creature
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with a long snipe nose and large green glassy eyes 
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His head was small and flat, and when fitted with a hat
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His scarecrow-like appearance was worthy of  a prize


His frame was long and lanky and he always had a hanky
To guard his beak from any nasty smell.
He was highly superstitious and also quite ambitious,
For he courted fair Katrina Van Tassel.


Katrina was a charmer, daughter of a wealthy farmer
And she had all of the lads under her spell
But the primary contender, a fine sample of his gender,
Was Brom Bones van Blunt, who thrived on  raising hell.


Old Van Tassel held a fest, where Ichabod was guest
Alas, Brom Bones had been invited too
The looks between this pair intensified to glares
As time passed and they consumed Van Tassel's brew


Guests drank rum and savored stories of the Patriots and Tories
Brom  told a local legend from the wars.
Of a horseman long since dead who still sought his missing head
And failing that, would happily take yours.



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The party carried on 'til the sun had long since gone

And when Ichabod was finally set to leave
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He felt a slight unease as the moon shone through the trees
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And a ghostly wind plucked gently at his sleeve

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He saddled up his horse and set a homeward course
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But the headless horseman preyed upon his mind.
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Part way home he heard a sound and he dared not turn around
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Because he was afraid what he might find.

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If I make it to the river, he considered with a shiver
Ghosts cannot cross moving water it is said
And he didn't want a session with a ghastly headless Hessian
Whose presence he felt strongly as he sped.


Now our intrepid schoolmaster is fleeing ever faster
And hes almost reached the bridge abutment when...(crash)
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Did our hero get away? Brom Bones Van Blunt won't say.
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But Ichabod was never seen again.
But Ichabod was never seen again.