Since it costs a lot to win, and even more to lose, You and me bound to spend some time wondrin what to choose. Goes to show, you dont ever know, Watch each card you play and play it slow, Wait until that deal come round, Dont you let that deal go down, no, no. I been gamblin hereabouts for ten good solid years, If i told you all that went down it would burn off both of your ears. Goes to show you dont ever know Watch each card you play and play it slow, Wait until that deal come round, Dont you let that deal go down, no, no. Since you poured the wine for me and tightened up my shoes, I hate to leave you sittin there, composin lonesome blues. Goes to show you dont ever know Watch each card you play and play it slow, Wait until that deal come round, dont you let that deal go down. Wait until that deal come round, dont you let that deal go down, Wait until that deal come round, dont you let that deal go down, Dont you let that deal go down, dont you let that deal go down.

As I was walkin' 'round Grosvenor Square Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air From the other direction, she was calling my eye It could be an illusion, but I might as well try, might as well try She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes And I knew without askin' she was into the blues She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff As I picked up my matches and was closing the door I had one of those flashes I'd been there before, been there before Well, I ain't always right but I've never been wrong Seldom turns out the way it does in a song Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right Well there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves Scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes Had to learn the hard way to let her pass by, let her pass by Wind in the willow's playin' 'Tea For Two' The sky was yellow and the sun was blue Strangers stoppin' strangers just to shake their hand Everybody's playing in the heart of gold band, heart of gold band

Bringing me down, I'm running aground Blind in the light of the interstate cars Passing me by, the buses and semis Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars But I'm here by the road, bound to the load I picked up in ten thousand cafes and bars Alone with the rush of the drivers who won't pick me up The highway, the moon, the clouds and the stars The black-throated wind keeps on pouring in With its words of a life where nothing is new Ah, Mother American Night, I'm lost from the light Ohh, I'm drowning in you I left St. Louis, City of Blues In the midst of a storm I'd rather forget I tried to pretend it came to an end 'Cause you weren't the woman I once thought I'd met But I can't deny, oh, times have gone by I never had doubts or thoughts of regret And I was a man when all this began Who wouldn't think twice about being there yet Black-throated wind, whisper in sin Is speaking of life that passes like dew Forced me to see you've done better by me Better by me than I've done by you Now what's to be found, racing around You carry your pain wherever you go Oh, full of the blues trying to lose You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know I give you my eyes, all of their lies Please help them to learn as well as to see That capture a glance, oh, and make a dance Of looking at you, looking at me The black-throated wind keeps on pouring in With its words of a lie that could almost be true Ah, Mother American Night, here comes the light Goin' around, that's what I'm gonna do Goin' back home that's what I'm gonna do Turnin' around, that's what I'm gonna do Goin' back home that's what I'm, I'm gonna do You've done better by me than I've done by you Ohh, I'm drowning in you Ohh, I'm drowning in you I'm goin' back home that's what I'm gonna do Well, I'm goin' drowning in you