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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.