...Summer Wages is a perfect song to my ears...

Sorry to disagre with you Don. It is a fun song to sing but

never leave your woman alone when your friends are out to steal her
Now who would want friends like that or a woman like that.
Who may be gambled and gone like summer wages.

And what a prick the singer must be, thinking of the woman he loves as though she a gambling stake.

Ah, she's a woman so fine I may never try to find her
For good memories of what we had before
They should never be changed for they're all that I'll take with me

First she is likely to run off with any one of his 'friends' NOW she a fine woman. But he hasn't got the guts to trust that she will still love him now that he has gambled his money away.

And what kind of Bozo would gamble his money away if he has a woman to go home to? It is a song about a complete loser.