Don't Ever Take Your Eyes Off The Game, Babe - John Hartford

Don’t ever take your eye off the game — babe, if you don’t want your deal to go

down

Don’t try to get away on a sunny day — that’s the time to hang around

Well they might try to tell you that there ain’t nothing wrong

Then the sheet gets short where it should’ve been long

And we’re sittin' round a-singin' that old time song — called don’t let your

deal go down

All together now

Don’t let your deal go down (x 3)

Till your last old dollar is gone

Don’t never take your eye off the scoreboard babe — there’s a lot of pretty

lights up there

Don’t never bet your ass on a snow white horse — it might not be going anywhere

Now I don’t need — to make you sad, you’re having the best time — that you ever

had

It’s just your nature to wanna be bad — just don’t let your deal go down

All together now

I’m sorry that I said what I said last night — I’ve been super paranoid of late

And with things going down the way they’ve been — it was the only way I could

communicate

Sometimes its alright but nobody knows when the things you rely on just ain’t so

Til the times get better that’s the way I gotta go if I don’t want my deal to

go down

All together now