Moriarty - The Dying Crapshooter Blues lyrics

Little Jesse was a gambler, night and day And he used crooked cards and dice He was a son of guy, good hearted but he had no soul Jesse's heart was hard and cold like ice Jesse was a wild reckless gambler He won a gang of change Altho' a many gambler's heart he led in pain Jesse began to spend and loose his money He began to be blue, sad and all alone What broke Jesse's heart while he was blue and all alone Sweet Lorena packed up and gone And the police walked up and they shot my friend Jesse down, boy He got to die someday He had a gang, gang and gamblers at his bedside And here are the words he had to say I guess I ought to know Exactly how I want to go (How you wanna go, Jesse?) Eight crapshooters to be my pallbearers Let 'em be veiled down in black I want nine men going to the graveyard, buddy I want eight men coming back I want a gang of gamblers gathered 'round my coffin-side Crooked card printed on my hearse My life has been a doggone curse Well, well, well, well Send poker players to the graveyard, buddy Dig my grave with the ace of spades I want twelve polices in my funeral march High sheriff playin' blackjack, lead the parade I want the judge and solic'ter who jailed me fourty times Put a pair of dice in my shoes, what else Let a deck of cards be my tombstone, buddy I got the dying crapshooter Sixteen real good crapshooters Sixteen bootleggers to sing a song I want sixteen racket men gamblin' Couple tend bar while I'm rollin' along He wanted twenty two womens outta the Hampton Hotel He wanted twenty six off-a South Bell He wanted twenty nine women outta North Atlanta Know little Jesse didn't pa** out so swell Well his heart was aching and his head was thumping Little Jesse went down bouncin' and jumpin' Folks, don't be standing 'round ol' Jesse dying He wants everybody to do the Charleston whiles he gone One foot up, and a toenail dragging Throw my friend Jesse in the hoodoo wagon Come here mama with that can of booze I got the dyin crapshooter's, blues The dyin crapshooter's blues The dyin crapshooter