Gus checked his pocket-watch it was a quarter past nine
He caught a train to Baton Rouge and bought a copy of the times.
Pulled out a faded picture of a woman with coal black hair
She had gone out east and he prayed he'd find her there.
She met a gambler who said hailed from New Orleans
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He talked to the man a while that had tore the ticket stubs
You're gonna live and die by the blade and you'll reap what you sow
Cause life the things that happens on our way to growing old
If the truth was known to woman she could steal her lover's soul
She knows that the devil pays in gold.
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The pulled into the station and he packed his cap and ball
Pulled a pistol on the desk clerk cause he would not take a bribe and then he shouted
Give me their number and you might walk out alive
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The gambler lay before him he was sprawled across that chair
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