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Thread #59021   Message #2308145
Posted By: Roberto
06-Apr-08 - 07:31 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Way Up on Clinch Mountain
Subject: Lyr Add: JACK OF DIAMONDS (from Ben Jarrell)
Please, help with this recording of Rye Whiskey / Drunken Hiccups / Jack of Diamonds: I miss a couple of words in the last stanza...

Jack of Diamonds
Ben Jarrell
(from the Yazoo CD series Times Ain't Like They Used To Be)

Jack of diamonds, jack of diamonds
I've known you of old
You've robbed my poor pockets
Of silver and gold

I've played cards in England
I've gambled in Spain
Goin back to Rhode Island
Gonna play my last game

I'll beat on the counter
I'll make the glass ring
More brandy, more brandy
More brandy to bring

Corn whiskey and hard cider
They've been my dowfall
They beat me, they banged me
But I love them for all

I'll drink and I'll gamble
My money is my own
And them that don't like me
Can let me alone

I'll get up in the morning
All … and reel
God bless them pretty women
How happy I feel