Key: C
Introduction:
C
Never hit seventeen
F
When you play against the dealer
C
You know that the odds
G
Won't ride with you
C
Never leave your woman alone
F
With your friends around to steal her
C
She'll be gambled and gone
G
Like summer wages
And we'll keep rollin on
F C
All down along Main Steet
C
The dreams of the season
F G
Are spilled down on the floor
G
All the big stands of timber
F C
Wait there just for fallin'
C
The hookers stand watchfully
F G
Waitin by the door
I'm going to work on them towboats
F C
And the years are gambled and lost
G C G C
Like summer wages