Glenn Ohrlin, on his A Cowboy's Life CD, tells about the old Pickwick Bar down in the river bottoms in Burbank California where cowboys would gather back in the '40s, where one of the bartenders, Tommy Coates, who also worked in pictures, doing stunts: "Sometimes when the sign was just right he'd jump on top of the bar and sing Ace in the Hole." This town is full of guys who think they're mighty wise Just because they know a thing or two You can see them everyday goin' up and down Broadway Telling all the wonders that they do. There's con men and there's boosters. There's card sharps and crap shooters They congregate around the metropole They wear fancy ties and collars, but where they get those dollars Well that's their old Ace in the Hole Some of them write to the old folks for coin That's their old Ace in the Hole Others have girls in the old tenderloin That's their old Ace in the Hole They like to tell you 'bout the trips they're going to make From Florida to that old North Pole But their names would be mud Like a chump playin' stud If they lost that old Ace in the Hole Now the more you hang around anywhere in this old town The more you see that what I say is true They'll greet you with a smile, but you know all the while They're just trying to pull something new You always hear them tellin' 'bout lemons that they're sellin' They spend a hundred bucks a day for clothes But you know that they're lyin' it's the aces does the buyin' And dress them from their heads down to their toes cho Some of them write to the old folks for coin That's their old Ace in the Hole Others have girls in the old tenderloin That's their old Ace in the Hole They like to tell you 'bout the money that they spend They tell you 'bout their influential friends They're not extra wise, they're just ordinary guys But they've got that old Ace in the Hole.
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