Pope

The Rupture and the.

thousands of wins reign

John Clare Stokes 

Up on Pine Mountain

The fires were burning

Down in Hazard

The snake handlers

were saying

The Rattlers are

Prophesying

The soon return

Of the Baron to the Blue Nation

The moon above is shining blue

Louisville is no longer feared

Cal’s one and done gone to Arkansas 

For years they say the Sheppard’s will return 

It's will be a welcome ACC dread

Coach K will cry in retirement again

St John Pitino will sigh and say  why

Did I not stay

To see this Rupp Returning

To send to forgotten lakes of fire

The memory of the Texas Westerns 

The one shot  Laettner’s

The cursing con Hurleys

To see the banners unfurled again!

Even so

Come Rupp!