Summer Wages

Lyrics for Summer Wages

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 She'll be gambled and gone like summer wages And we'll keep rollin' on 'til we get to Vancouver And the woman that I love, she's livin' there And it's been six long months, and more since I've seen her She may be gambled and gone like summer wages In all the beer parlors all down around main street The dreams of the season get all spilled down on the floor And the big stands of timber waitin' there just for fallin' And the hookers waitin' watchfully standin' by the door So, I work on them old tow boats with my slippery city shoes Which I swore I would never do again In the gray fog bound straights where the cedars stand watchin' I'll be far off and gone like summer wages In all the beer parlors all down around main street The dreams of the season get all spilled down on the floor And the big stands of timber waitin' there just for fallin' The hookers waitin' watchfully standin' by the door 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 She'll be gambled and gone like summer wages Years are gambled and gone like summer wages