This is a song about a kind of dreamland character who is tormented by a crow that has appeared from a hole in the sky. He becomes obsessed with capturing it so spends all his money on a pack mule, builds a ladder and makes the mule climb up to the top of a tree. He uses the strings from his guitar to climb up to the hole where he catches the crow. Now he holds the crow prisoner in the Washburn (guitar) and rides off with it strapped to the back of the mule. He likes to bang on the strings & "strum it out loud" so he can now be the one who torments the crow.
This is a song about a kind of dreamland character who is tormented by a crow that has appeared from a hole in the sky. He becomes obsessed with capturing it so spends all his money on a pack mule, builds a ladder and makes the mule climb up to the top of a tree. He uses the strings from his guitar to climb up to the hole where he catches the crow. Now he holds the crow prisoner in the Washburn (guitar) and rides off with it strapped to the back of the mule. He likes to bang on the strings & "strum it out loud" so he can now be the one who torments the crow.