Warning to the readers, this chapter as kind of a sad ending, so if you don't like sad endings, don't read any farther.

An Outlaw's legacy

Ch 7: legacy

Eventually the day had come when Joshua had grown up in a young adult rattlesnake and was ready to go off on his own. At first Jake was looking forward to this day, but with the time he had spent with Joshua, his bond with him had grown strong and soon it became the hardest goodbye he would ever make. Joshua wanted to leave to start in own life, make his own way in the world, but Jake was reluctant to let him go. One morning, when Joshua woke for a brand new day inside the cave, he did not need to wake up Jake this time, he was already up. Joshua smiled at Jake and they rubbed their heads together for a little bit and then they both went outside to catch breakfast. They eventually caught breakfast for themselves and ate together, but Jake was kind of sad throughout breakfast because he knew this was probably the last time they would have breakfast together.

As morning grew into early afternoon, Joshua finally said what needed to be said to Jake

"Pa, I know you want me to stay a little longer, but I think it's time I go out on my own. Start my own life; see what the wide world out there as to offer me."

Jake leaned his head down until the rim of hat covered his eyes and said "then go, I should not hold you back any longer."

Joshua came up to Jake and nudged him so he would raise his head again.

"Don't worry, pa. You taught me everything I need to know; now it is time to let me go and I'll keep in touch." Joshua said.

"Take care of yourself then and remember what I said." said Jake.

"Try to be a simple kind of man, of course." Joshua said,

"Right, go on then." Jake said.

Jake and Joshua rubbed their heads together for the last time and as they did so Joshua said "don't you die on me again okay?"

"Same to you." Jake said

Then they parted and Joshua slithered away from Jake into the sand dunes, but he turned around again and said "oh by the way, I think you made a great dad, ma would have been proud."

Jake gave Joshua a weak smile once he said that.

Then Joshua turned away again and started to climb over a tall sand dune, once Joshua was over the sand dune, Jake climbed on top of it himself to watch Joshua go. Jake watched Joshua go off into the distance until he was nothing more a tiny speck on the horizon. As he watched, Jake tried his best not to cry, but it was no use, a single tear trickled down his face. Then Jake looked up to the empty sky above, Joshua was right, if his mate Lolita was watching from somewhere, she would be proud.

At first, Joshua just wandered aimlessly through out the desert, going from town to town, looking for one to clam as his own home; he even stopped by back in Mud a few times to keep in touch with Rango, but none of them felt like home to him. Then he thought of one place, the town in which he was born in, that town had no sheriff or peacekeeper to speak of since Lolita died, at least not that he knew of, so he decided to go there. He wanted his tail gun to be used for good and the best way to do that was become a sheriff of a town. The town he grew up in was now overrun with outlaw gangs and thugs, so that town would the perfect place for him to start.

When Joshua first came into the town, of course the townspeople there were very weary of him and did not trust him because he looked like the famous grim reaper of the west. Joshua told the townspeople he would protect their town, of course they did not believe him, so he proved his word by running the outlaws gangs and thugs out of town. Of course, most of them put up a fight, but they were all child's play to Joshua. Eventually, as Joshua ran more outlaws out of town, the townspeople began to trust him and soon enough they made him sheriff of the town. Eventually the town had gone back to being safe again.

While Joshua was in town, he soon came upon the house in which in was born in that was at the edge of the town. His home was a shabby old broken down shake now, slowly fading way from years of neglect, once Joshua went inside the house, everything was still the same as he remembered it, the table, the chairs, the fireplace and the kitchen. Joshua remembered the kitchen the most. As he looked around, he could still a few pots and pans and kitchen wear scattered about. Joshua didn't know whether it just the smell of the house, but he thought he could still smell his mother's cooking, which brought a tear to his eyes. After looking the house over, Joshua thought to fix this place up, this was where he was born, so this is where he shall continue to live. Eventually Joshua fixed the place up until the point it looked like new, he was proud of his work.

As months passed, word of Joshua being a sheriff in a town spread like wildfire from town to town though out the desert, mostly because it was unheard of for a rattlesnake to be a sheriff of a town. eventually word of this reached Jake, he was not angry with him for becoming the opposite of what he was, Jake was actually happy, happy that his son had made a better life for himself then he ever had. After that, Jake visited him many times to see how he was doing. Eventually Joshua found himself a female mate of his own and they had kids, Jake ever thought he see the day he would have grand children.

As for Jake, he was getting older and weaker; all those years of fighting were taking their toll on him. his scales are turned a faded gray color, his tail gun had become old and rusty, barely able to move the barrels anymore, his hat had become more torn and ruffled, baring a more color of gray then black and he soon got a bad case of cataract in his eyes, his left eye had become completely clouded over and the other eye was not far behind, showing more colors of dull reds and oranges then bright yellow. Soon he was no longer strong enough to keep doing the outlaw business, so he gave it up and just continued to do what he needed to do to survive. As time went on, people began to fear him less, knowing as he got older, he was not much of a threat anymore. Soon Jake's name began to fade into history while his son's name became to rise up as the famous rattlesnake sheriff of the west. But that was the way Jake wanted it to be. Jake knew he would eventually pass on, but at least he had a legacy to leave behind now.

Despite Jake's growing age, he still made visits to see Joshua and his grand kids, it was quite a long journey from his cave to the town Joshua lived in, but it was worth it. It was in the spring season; Jake decided to make another visit to Joshua because he feared this would be the last time he would be able to make the trip. Once he got to the town, he got a few looks from the townspeople, but they mostly ignored him, not because they feared him, but because they didn't see him as much of a threat anymore.

Soon he got to Joshua's house and he knocked on the door, shortly after Joshua had opened the door.

"Pa? What brings you here?" Joshua said kind of surprised to see Jake.

"What? Can't a father visit is son once in a while?" Jake said back.

"Well, whatever the reason, I'm glad you came." Joshua said as they both rubbed heads together for a little bit.

"Come on in" Joshua said as moved away from the door.

Joshua moved on in the house and as soon as he did he heard five cheerful little voices shout out.

"Grandpa!" shouted five young rattlesnakes as the rushed towards Jake.

There were Joshua's and his mate's children, they had five offspring, three sons and two daughters, their names were Joseph, Marie, sierra, Dante and of course Jake jr. Jake greeted all this grand children happily, normally Jake would be really annoyed with kids, but Joshua broke him from that, besides these were his family. Most of them looked like their mother with her eye color and scales, but one had those same bright fiery eyes as Jake and Joshua had, he was kind of smaller then his siblings, but he made up for it by being the loudest and spunkiest.

"And how all my favorite little rattlers doing today?" Jake said.

"Just fine, grandpa." Jake jr said.

"Any of you been causing trouble?" Jake said them.

"pa." Joshua spoke out.

All the young rattlesnakes let out giggles and said "nha-na, grandpa."

Then Jake moved towards the living room with all the young rattlesnakes crowded around him, Jake would tell them stories, stories of his younger days when he fought in gunfights and his grandchildren were always eager to listen, of course he left out the part of him being a outlaw, I thought best to leave that part out. With his stories, the children kind of admired him as a hero, Jake liked that thought.

Jake soon saw Joshua's mate who was in the kitchen, she was a beautiful snake with light tan scales and bright blue eyes, kind of reminded Jake on his long lost love. Joshua had made a good choice with her. Of course, the female rattlesnake knew who Jake once was with his name still not forgotten by most rattlesnakes, but she still accepted Jake anyway for the sake of Joshua and their grandchildren.

While Jake sat in the living room and continued to tell stories to the young rattlesnakes, Joshua went out of the house to patrol the town; he still had the job of sheriff to keep up. Later in the day, Jake and his grandchildren went outside to play, Jake still had some energy left in him despite his age and the kids liked having a good rough housing with him, but Jake did tire out most easily. Soon enough the kids were starting to wear him out. Soon Joshua returned home and soon saw Jake and the kids were playing and that jake was in much need of a relief from them.

"Okay, kids! That's enough! Give your old snake a little break!" Joshua shouted to them.

"aww…pa, can't we play a littler longer?" said Joseph.

"Nope, it's time to come in and waste up for supper anyway." Joshua said.

"Okay." All the young rattles said and moved away from Jake.

Joshua then moved towards Jake and said "there, I thought you could use a break from them."

Jake let out a soft chuckle and said "they certainly are a feisty bunch."

After that, Joshua went back into his house and Jake wanted a little bit of time for himself for some rest and relaxation, so he decided to go to the saloon in the town. As he entered the saloon, the people in there were not weary of him and mostly ignored him, which Jake was actually glad about, he was glad that he could finally go into place to have a simple drink without getting strange and nervous looks from people. Jake came towards the bartender in the saloon and asked for a bottle of whiskey, the bartender gave it to him without a fuss. Then Jake, like usual, went to sit at a table that was empty. Even though Jake had pretty much lost his mean streak, he still liked to be alone when he drank.

The saloon was pretty empty, only a few people hung out in it; things seemed pretty quiet outside too, Joshua seemed to have done a fine job in keeping town safe. Jake started to doze off while drinking the whiskey, when suddenly he heard a lot of noise coming from outside, there was a lot of shouts, yells and gunfire. Some people started to run frantically pass the saloon, then he heard the unmistaken sound of a screech from a hawk. Jake quickly rushed outside the saloon to see what all the noise was and he saw that his son, Joshua, was fighting a hawk! The hawk kept hopping up and down and hovering in the air around Joshua, while Joshua tried to fend off the hawk with his tail gun, either firing it or swinging when the hawk got too close, Jake could see Joshua's mate was near by their house and had her coils wrapped around the children to protect them.

Jake immediately rushed out towards Joshua and the hawk, Jake still had his fear of hawks, but at this moment his need to help his son out weighted his fear. Jake rushed up next to Joshua and fired his tail gun at the hawk, even though his gun had gotten old and rusty, it could still fire bullets. Taken by surprise by the sudden appearance of the second rattlesnake, the hawk backed off and took off into the air.

Once they were sure the hawk was not coming back, Jake quickly turned to Joshua and said "have you lost your mind? Fighting a hawk? It could have easily killed you!"

Joshua turned towards Jake and said "I know, pa. But what else can I do? Let the hawk raid the town? I'm sheriff of this town, I'm the one suppose to protect it."

"Some battles are better to walk away from." Jake said.

"I can't, if I don't protect this town from any kind of threat, what would the people think of me?" Joshua said.

"That won't matter if you're dead!" Jake shouted.

"Well, if I am to die, at least I won't die in vain by doing the thing I love most, protecting this town and my family." Joshua said.

"You're a fool, but you're my fool, I guess I can't convince you otherwise." said Jake.

Joshua just simply shook his head in response "no"

Then Jake thought for a moment and then said "as that hawk been a problem here?"

"Unfortunately, yes, the hawk comes here often attacking the town, mostly attacking me and my family, but we have been lucky so far. I manage to drive the hawk away, but the hawk keeps coming back." Joshua said

Jake then thought a bit more, after a long pause he said "I know how to make that hawk go away for good."

Jake started to move away from Joshua towards the edge of town; Joshua knew what he was going to do and raced in front of him to stop him.

"No pa! This is my fight! I'm the only one that should protect this town!" Joshua said.

"Trust me, a hawk you cannot fight alone and you can't fight one by brute force and luck either, you got to outsmart one or it will get you." said Jake.

"Please pa, don't do anything foolish. This is my responsibility." said Joshua again.

"Fine, but watch yourself, son. I don't want to have to pick up the pieces of what is left of ya." Jake said.

"I'll be fine, pa." Joshua said.

After that, Jake and Joshua went back to the house; Joshua tried to calm his mate and children down. Even Joshua's mate had concern for his safety, but he was the sheriff after all, danger kind of came with the job. After everyone had settled down, Joshua's mate began to make dinner in the kitchen while Jake and Joshua kept the children occupied. After dinner, they decided to shut in for an early night's rest, for Joshua and his mate getting all the kids to go to bed was not an easy task, many of them wanted to continue to stay up and pester Jake. Once they finally managed to get all the children to sleep, they went to bed themselves. Everyone slept in their own rooms while Jake slept in the living room by the fireplace, which he did not mind too much, in his old age he liked sleeping by the warmth of the fire.

Early the next morning, Jake woke up very early before anyone one else had, even before Joshua. Once he made sure everyone was still asleep, he slowly and quietly slithered out of the house and out into the desert. Even though he had told Joshua he was not going to deal with the hawk, he was far from finished with the hawk. Jake figured since the hawk frequently attacked the town, it must be a local hawk and had a nest somewhere near by and just maybe, babies. Jake figured that could be the only reason why the hawk was so determined to go after his son and family.

Jake searched the desert area around the town looking of any good place a hawk nest might be, sure enough he saw a tall rock formation not too far from town. Jake slowly climbed the rock formation, looking between every nook and cranny for any sigh of a nest. Soon enough Jake could hear little beeps and chirps coming from somewhere, he headed in the direction of the noise and sure enough, nestled between two large rocks was three tiny hawk chicks settled in a mess of twigs.

He had found the hawk nest.

Thankfully for Jake, the mother hawk was nowhere to be seen. Jake did not hesitate, he knew what he needed to do, he quietly slithered towards the nest, quickly grabbed one the chicks with his coils and fled the area.

Meanwhile, back in the town, Joshua and his family had already woken up for the day, Jake had not returned yet. Joshua was a bit puzzled to where Jake had gone, but he figured he was either in the saloon or out in the desert catching himself some breakfast. After they all ate breakfast, Joshua's mate and the kids were getting cleaned up and ready to their daily chores while Joshua made his way to his sheriff's office, the townspeople saying "hello good day" as he went. Suddenly, an awful high-pitched shrieking noise came out of nowhere; Joshua looked to the sky and saw it was the hawk again, coming in fast.

"Dear, get the children back in the house quickly!" Joshua shouted to his mate.

The female rattlesnake did so; she quickly gathered up the children and rushed into the house. While everyone in the town started to run in panic, Joshua stood firm, ready for the hawk to strike. Soon enough, the hawk dove straight down at Joshua, talons fully outstretched, at the last minute Joshua dodged the hawk, and the hawk hit the ground, tumbled a little bit, but then got right back up and took off into the air again. The hawk circled for another go around, Joshua stood still for the next strike. Soon enough the hawk dove again and again Joshua dodged the hawk at the last moment. This time the hawk was kind of expecting it and immediately flew up again. Joshua tried to fire his tail gun at the hawk, but his bullets missed it.

What the hawk did next was kind of unexpected, the hawk landed right in front of Joshua and outspread its wings wide. This was a trick hawks often used to confuse rattlesnakes, but Joshua knew this trick well and would not fall for it. The hawk slowly walked towards Joshua with its wings still out stretched, Joshua still stood firm with his gun aimed at the hawk. He didn't really want to kill the hawk, but if he had no other choice, he would do it. Soon the hawk was really close to Joshua, Joshua just stood still waiting for the hawk's next move. Suddenly the hawk flew up in the air again, but only for a split second and slammed back down on top of Joshua, Joshua did not have tme to react. The hawk dung its long sharp talons into Joshua's hide, Joshua let out yelps of pain. One of the hawk's feet held Joshua's head down while the other held down the rest of his body.

Joshua's mate was about to rush out to help him, but as soon as she was about to Joshua shouted "no, don't come out! Protect the children!"

She did as she was told and stayed in the house, even though it pained her greatly to see her mate being torn apart by the hawk, but she knew protecting the children was a better choice, there were their future. The children looked on from the house in fear, shouting his name out to continue on fighting.

Joshua could try to fire off his tail gun at the hawk, but without seeing where he was aiming, it was too much a risk he would shoot himself rather than the hawk. The hawk tried to pick Joshua up, but his thrashing about in the hawk's grip prevented it from doing so. Next, the hawk started to stomp on Joshua, stabbing him repeating with its talons with one of its feet, creating more and more puncture wounds. Joshua was in a panic, he didn't know what to do, no matter how hard he tried, he could not escape the hawk's grip, and soon he thought he was going to die by this hawk. Then the hawk held Joshua down again by his head, threw off his hat and was ready to plunge its sharp beak in Joshua's head.

Suddenly a loud voice rung out "yo, hawk!"

The hawk stopped and picked its head up to see who had shouted, Joshua could see who had yelled out too. It was Jake and wrapped in his coils was a tiny hawk chick flailing around trying to get free.

The hawk let out an ear piercing shriek and was about to lunge for Jake, but Jake squeezed tighter on the hawk chick which make the hawk stop.

"Come any closer, and I will kill your baby." said Jake.

The hawk just stood still and gave a scornful look at Jake.

"This is why you come after my family so much, isn't it? We make good food for your babies." Jake said.

The hawk looked at Jake then down at Joshua under her feet and then looked back at Jake with sort of an evil smirk. Then slammed her foot down in Joshua again, cutting him with her talons, Joshua let out another yelp of pain.

Jake squeezed even a little tighter on the hawk chick and said "if you kill my son, I will kill yours."

The hawk let out another shriek. She would like to tear apart the rattlesnake right now, but she knew she could nothing; Jake would kill her baby before she got to him and the loss of one her chicks would hurt her greatly.

"But if you let my son go, I will let yours go. So what will it be hawk?" Jake said.

For a while, Jake and the hawk just stared at each other in a standoff, not sure of what to do next. Finally the hawk seemed to understand and let go of her grip on Joshua and slowly walked away from him. As she did so, Jake slowly uncoiled his body from around the hawk chick; the hawk chick was still alive. As the hawk walked passed Jake, Jake went over towards Joshua. The hawk gently picked the hawk chick with her beak and after giving Jake one last angry glare, she took off to the air.

Jake looked to the sky to watch the hawk fly away off into the distance and then turned to Joshua and said "you alright?"

"Yeah, I will live." said Joshua despite he was in a lot of pain from his puncture wounds.

Joshua's mate immediately rushed out towards Joshua, happy to see he was still alive. Joshua and his mate rubbed heads to together for a bit.

Then Joshua looked angrily at Jake and said "pa, what were you thinking? Taking one of the hawk's babies? And you said I was crazy."

"I told you I knew how to make the hawk go away for good and this was the only way. If I didn't do it the hawk would just keep attacking you and the town." Jake said.

"And what makes you think this will make the hawk go away?" Joshua said.

"Cuz, I threatened her family, he hawk will deem the area unsafe and either moves her chicks or hunt somewhere else." Jake said.

"How can you be sure of that?" Joshua said.

"Trust me, I know." Jake just simply said back.

The Joshua said again "well, even though I don't like what you did, I'm glad you did it, if you hadn't intervened when you did, I probably would be dead."

"See, hawks are not so easy to pick a fight with, are they?" Jake said.

"Oh, hush up." Joshua said.

Then both Jake and Joshua let out soft chuckles at each other and after that they all went back inside the house. Joshua's mate started to bandage up his wounds, he was not cut too deeply, but I still hurt a lot. Then Joshua settled down in the living room for some rest. Later in the day, Jake kept the children occupied by playing with them while Joshua's mate patrolled the town since Joshua would be out of action for the day. As the day wore on into evening, Joshua's mate returned home as well as Jake with the children, Jake was plenty wore out from the day. Joshua felt much better from good day of rest and would be back of his feet… or scaly body by tomorrow. Really thank god because Jake didn't think it could take another day of the children. Joshua's mate soon made dinner and they all sat down for dinner as a family. After dinner, Jake decided to head out of the house on his own, Joshua let him go alone, and he figured Jake needed his quiet time.

Jake headed to the saloon, hoping it was still open and it was; only a few people remained in there for a late night of drinking. Jake did his usual, asked the bartender for a bottle of whiskey and sat at an empty table in the corner. After about an hour of drinking, Jake started to feel a bit tipsy and figure he had enough to drink and was ready to leave. Then suddenly Joshua came into the saloon, saw Jake in the corner and moved over to him.

As Joshua approached Jake's table, Jake spoke out "shouldn't you be with your family?"

"They will be fine without me for a few minutes. I just came to see ya, I was worried about ya." Joshua said.

"I'm fine." Jake said.

Then Joshua asked the bartender for a bottle of cactus juice and sat next to Jake at his table.

Jake looked at him puzzled and said "you drink?"

"What? Can't I have a drink with my old man for once?" Joshua said.

Jake just smiled and let out a soft chuckle.

After taking a sip from his cactus juice bottle, Joshua spoke again "you not still mad at me about the hawk, are ya?"

Jake looked at him and said "no, you're right, you're the sheriff of this town, and it's your duty to protect it no matter what."

"And you're not upset with me for becoming a sheriff either?" Joshua said.

"No, really I'm proud of you. You made your life better than I ever had it; you made yourself a better person." Jake said.

"You could have had all this once too ya know." Joshua said.

"No, I couldn't. My heart was so set on revenge that by the time I got it, I didn't realize who I had become. I went down a path I could not return from." Jake said.

"It was not all bad, you got me from it." Joshua said.

"mmm….yes, that is one good thing." Jake said.

After a few more minutes of Joshua drinking together with his father, Joshua soon said "well, I better head back; my mate will start to worry about me."

"See ya, son, I'll hang out here a little longer." said Jake

"Don't stay out too late." Joshua said as he left the table.

Then Joshua paid the bartender for the drink and left the saloon. After a bit Joshua had left, Jake finally decided to leave too. He returned the bottle of whiskey and paid the bartender and moved his way out the saloon.

Jake slowly slithered his way to the edge of the town, he wanted to return to the house, but something prevented him from doing so. Jake soon climbed a tall hill just outside the town and he stared out into the horizon, watching the last bit of sunlight slowly fade away. He knew deep within his being that he was fading; it would not be much longer before he was no more, but Jake was okay in accepting that fact. He had done all he needed to do and he was prepared for whatever awaited him in the afterlife. He knew his son and his family would be fine without him.

Suddenly, Jake heard someone approaching from behind him and he turned to look to see who it was, it was the hawk. Jake never noticed the hawk was there, the hawk gave out no warning call and Jake didn't hear the hawk fly towards him and land behind him, it was like the hawk was a ghost. It was the same female hawk Jake and Joshua drove away earlier; the hawk just stood there and gave Jake the same scornful expression as before. Jake just looked at the hawk with sad tired eyes and made no attempt to flee.

Instead he turned his head back to stare at the sunset on the horizon and said to the hawk

"If you want to eat me, go ahead, I will not fight you. Take me so your children don't starve."

Jake knew he could not fight this hawk, even if he wanted too, his body was now too old and wore out to put up a fight, he would lose.

The hawk was a bit surprised and confused the rattlesnake would not run, but she would not pass up the chance to make a kill anyway.

Jake slowly closed his eyes, waiting for the hawk to strike.

Soon the hawk flew up in the air again, and then dove for Jake, her talons fully out stretched.

Jake did not fight back.

It was getting really late at night and Joshua was getting worried about Jake since he had not returned to the house yet. Finally Joshua decided to go look for him; his dad might get a little annoyed with his son nagging on him like a little school boy, but Joshua couldn't help but worry. Joshua searched in the saloon and all over the town, but still he could not find Jake. Joshua asked some the townspeople who were still up if they had seen him, but no one had seen him since he left the saloon. Finally, Joshua decided to use his senses to find Jake, he flicked his tongue on the ground trying to find Jake's scent. Soon enough he found it and he followed it until he reached a spot out in the desert just outside of town. Joshua soon saw hawk tracks and what looked like a bit of a struggle in the sand.

But all Joshua could find of Jake was his hat.

Joshua did not need to think hard of what happened to him.

The next day, a funeral was held for Jake, even though his body was never found; Joshua still wanted to do it anyway. Joshua, and his family, along with a few of the townspeople that knew Joshua well came just to pay their respects. Joshua's mate was kind of indifferent on the matter, she was sad, but not in the same way as Joshua. The children however were just as sad as Joshua was, they liked Jake a lot, he was like a second father to them.

Finally Joshua spoke a few words for Jake "Rattlesnake Jake, he was not always a good person, but he was a great father. To whoever is up above, please forgive him for his sins and let him into heaven, he deserves it. Let him be happy with my mother."

After Joshua finished speaking, he picked up Jake's hat and gently placed it on a tombstone that had Jake's name roughly craved into it.

Soon after, the crowd started to disperse away from the burial site, soon only Joshua and one of his children, Jake jr, remained.

Jake jr stared at the tombstone and then looked up at Joshua and said "why did grandpa Jake go away? Did he not like us anymore?"

Joshua looked down Jake jr, those bright fiery eyes of his burned with intense light, just like Jake's.

Joshua gave a weak smile and said "no, quite the opposite, he loved us all so much that he was willing to sacrifice his life for us, so we could live on. So you could grow up to be a strong rattlesnake like him."

"Oh, then I'm gonna be the best gunslinger that ever was when I grow up, just like you pa." said Jake jr.

"I'm sure you will, son." said Joshua.

Soon after, Joshua and Jake jr left the tombstone of Jake and went back into the house. Jake was gone, but not forgotten, Joshua made sure of that, he made sure his name would never be forgotten and he would continue on his father's legacy.

Author's note: if this story was a movie, this song would play during the end credits

Simple man by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Mama told me when I was young

Come sit beside me, my only son

And listen closely to what I say.

And if you do this

It will help you some sunny day.

Take your time... Don't live too fast,

Troubles will come and they will pass.

Go find a woman and you'll find love,

And don't forget son,

There is someone up above.

(Chorus)

And be a simmmmmppppplllllleeeeee kind of maaaaannnnnnnn.

Be something you love and understand.

Be a simmmmmmppppppllllllleeeeee kind of maaaaaaannnnnnn.

Won't you do this for me son,

If you can?

Forget your lust for the rich man's gold

All that you need is in your soul,

And you can do this if you try.

All that I want for you my son,

Is to be satisfied.

(Chorus)

And be a simmmmmppppplllllleeeeee kind of maaaaannnnnnnn.

Be something you love and understand.

Be a simmmmmmppppppllllllleeeeee kind of maaaaaaannnnnnn.

Won't you do this for me son,

If you can?

Boy, don't you worry... you'll find yourself.

Follow you heart and nothing else.

And you can do this if you try.

All I want for you my son,

Is to be satisfied.

(Chorus)

And be a simmmmmppppplllllleeeeee kind of maaaaannnnnnnn.

Be something you love and understand.

Be a simmmmmmppppppllllllleeeeee kind of maaaaaaannnnnnn.

Won't you do this for me son,

If you can?