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Summer Wages (1971 version)
by
Ian Tyson
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Never hit 17 when you play against the dealer Oh, you know that the odds won't ride with you Never leave your woman alone when your friends are out to steal her Years are gambled and gone like summer wages And we'll keep rollin' on 'til we get to Vancouver And the woman that I love who's livin' there It's been six long months and more since I've seen her Maybe gambled and gone like summer wages In all the beer parlors all down along Main Street The dreams of the seasons are all spilled down on the floor Of the big stands of timber just waitin' for fallin' And the hookers standin' watchfully waitin' by the door So I'll work on the towboats with my slippery city shoes Which I swore I would never do again Through the grey fogbound straits where the cedars stand watchin' I'll be far off and gone like summer wages In all the beer parlors all down along Main Street The dreams of the seasons are all spilled down on the floor Of the big stands of timber just waitin' for fallin' And the hookers standin' watchfully waitin' by the door So never hit 17 when you play against the dealer For you know that the odds won't ride with you Never leave your woman alone when your friends are out to steal her Years are gambled and lost like summer wages Years are gambled and lost like summer wages
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