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Thread #87876 Message #1646035
Posted By: Jim Dixon
10-Jan-06 - 11:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Skin Game Blues (Peg Leg Howell)
Subject: Lyr Add: SKIN GAME BLUES (Peg Leg Howell)
Here are the lyrics copied from the Weenie Campbell site that 12-Stringer provided the link to above:
SKIN GAME BLUES Peg Leg Howell
When I came to Georgia, Money and clothes I had, babe, All the money I had done gone, My Sunday clothes in pawn, Sunday clothes in pawn, Sunday clothes in pawn, lovin' babe, My Sunday clothes in pawn.
Says you better let a deal go down. Skin game's comin' to a close, And you better let the deal go down.
SPOKEN: Hold the cards! A dollar more! Two more halves!
A dollar more the deuce beat a nine. A dollar more the deuce beat a nine, lovin' babe. A dollar more the deuce beat a nine.
Went out to the skin game last night Thought I'd have some fun Lost all the money that I had made Had to pawn my special gun Had to pawn my special gun Had to pawn my special gun, lovin' babe, Had to pawn my special gun
Says you better let a deal go down Skin game's comin' to a close, and You better let the deal go down
Says gambled all over Missouri Gambled all through Spain, babe, Police come to arrest me, babe, And they did not know my name And they did not know my name And they did not know my name, lovin' babe, And they did not know my name
Better let a deal go down Skin game's comin' to a close, And you better let your deal go down
SPOKEN: Hold the cards! A dollar more the deuce beat a nine! Half more two! Put up over there, nigger!
Better let the deal go down Says you better let the deal go down
Gambled all over Missouri Gambled through Tennessee, babe, Soon as I reached old Georgia The niggers carried a handcuff to me The niggers carried a handcuff to me, babe, The niggers carried a handcuff to me, lovin' babe, And the niggers carried a handcuff to me
Better let a deal go down Skin game's comin' to a close And you better let the deal go down.