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

Gone are the days when the ox fall down, Take up the yoke and plow the fiends around. Gone are the days when the ladies said' "Please, Gentle Jack Jones won't you come to me." Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down, And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. 1929 when he stepped to the bar, drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar. 1030 when the wall caved in, he made his way selling red-eyed gin. Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down, And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. Delilah Jones was the mother of twins, Two times over and the rest were sins. Raised eight boys, only I turned bad, Didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had. Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down, And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. Tumble down shack on Big Foot country. Snowed so hard that the roof caved in. Delilah Jones went to meet her God, And the old man never was the same again. Daddy made whiskey and he made it well. Cost two dollars and it burned like hell. I cut hick'ry just to fire the still, Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill. Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down, And it looks like the old man's gettin' on. Gone are the days when the ox fall down, Take up the yoke and plow the fiends around. Gone are the days when the ladies said' "Please, Gentle Jack Jones won't you come to me." Brown-eyed women and red grenadine, The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean. Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,

Look for awhile at the China Cat Sunflower Proud-walking jingle in the midnight sun Copper-dome Bodhi drip a silver kimono Like a crazy-quilt stargown Through a dream night wind Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandana Like a one-eyed Cheshire Like a diamond-eye Jack A leaf of all colors plays A golden string fiddle To a double-e waterfall over my back Comic book colors on a violin river Crying Leonardo words From out a silk trombone I rang a silent bell Beneath a shower of pearls In the eagle wing palace Of the Queen Chinee

She came without a farthing A babe without a name So much ado about nothing Is what she'd try to say So much ado, my lover So many games we played Through every fleeted Summer Through every precious day All dead, all dead All the dreams we had And I wonder why I still live on All dead, all dead And alone, I'm spared My sweeter half instead All dead and gone All dead All dead, all dead At the rainbow's end And still, I hear her own sweet song All dead, all dead Take me back again You know my little friend's All dead and gone Her ways are always with me I wander all the while But, please, you must forgive me I am old but still a child All dead, all dead But I should not grieve In time it comes to everyone All dead, all dead But in hope, I breathe Of course, I don't believe You're dead and gone All dead and gone