Summer Wages
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Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer
'Cause you know that the odds won't ride with you
Never leave your woman alone when your friends are out to steal her
She might be gambled and gone like summer wages
And we'll keep rolling on 'till we get to Vancouver
'Cause the lady that I love, she's living there
And it's been six long months or more since I've seen her
She might be gambled and gone like summer wages
In all the beer parlors all down along Main Street
The dreams of the season are spilled down on the floor
Big stands of timber wait there just for falling
The hooker standing watchfully, waiting by the door
So I work on them towboats with my slippery city shoes
Though I swore I would never do that again
Through the grey fogbound straits where the cedar stand awaiting
I'll be far off and gone like summer wages
In all the beer parlors all down along Main Street
The dreams of the season are spilled down on the floor
Big stands of timber wait there just for falling
The hooker standing watchfully, waiting by the door
Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer
'Cause you know that the odds won't ride with you
Never leave your woman alone when your friends are out to steal her
She might be gambled and gone like summer wages
And the years are gambled and lost like summer wages