Songs:All Hell Breaks Loose (103428)
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I rode hard and overnight, just to make the morning call Steamboat gambler’s half asleep, captain yelling All Aboard I checked my pistols at the desk Though I hid one up my sleeve I’s too smart to be concerned, too drunk to be deceived But it’s cold at the bottom, when the bottle’s upside down The only friends I ever made, left before I hit the ground I’ve known a lot of ladies, but they never spoke too much It was a dollar for the perfume smell, a dollar more to touch It’s over when it’s over, no use looking back Old dreams keep me going, but she’ll have none of that Some nights are precious, and a little too long Now that the Queen of Kentucky is gone I kept her faded photograph, yellow with the years Followed every handbill, until I finally found her here She still wears that diamond bracelet Loosely round her wrist And when I close my eyes I still recall the softness of her kiss She waltzes in and out of arms, playing to the crowd Sips Napoleon Brandy, laughs as if it’s not allowed Then preening like a swan, dipping from the waist The Queen of Kentucky glides away There’s twenty tables busy, playing twenty different hands I stick to blackjack, a game I love and understand I always hold at seventeen, but tonight I can’t decide And when the dealer coughs into his arm There’s a strange look in his eyes I smell her hair against me, she’s leaning in to look I knew she had bad habits But I never thought she’d play the crook And with a double crack explosion I roll my sleeve back down Now there’s the dealer and the dancer Both dying on the ground
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 | Blues 2,216 items |
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