Bobby Bare - Summer Wages lyrics

Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer For you know the odds won't ride with you Never leave your woman alone when your friends around to steal her Years I've gambled and lost like summer wages. And we'll keep rolling on till we get to Vancouver And the woman that I love is living there It's been six long months and more since I've seen her May be gambled and gone like summer wages. In all of the beer bars all down along Main Street The dreams of the seasons get all spilled down on the floor All the big stands of timber just waitin' for falling And the hookers waitin' watchfully as they sit there by the door. So, I'll work on the towboats with my slippery city shoes on Which I swore I would never do again Through the gray fog-bound straits where the cedars stand a waitin' I'll be far off and gone like summer wages. In all of the beer bars all down along Main Street The dreams of the seasons get all spilled down on the floor All the big stands of timber just waitin' for falling And the hookers waitin' watchfully as they sit there by the door. So, I'll work on the towboats with my slippery city shoes on Which I swore I would never do again Through the gray fog-bound straits where the cedars stand a waitin' I'll be far off and gone like summer wages. Years I've gambled and lost like summer wages...