Summer Wages - Nanci Griffith

Never hit seventeen

When you play against the dealer

You know that the odds

Wont ride with you

And never leave your woman alone

With your friends around to steal her

Shell be gamled and gone

Like summer wages

And well keep rollin on til we get to vancouver

And the woman that I love

Shes living there

Its been six long months

And more since Ive seen her

Years have gambled and gone

Like summer wages

In all the beer parlors

All down along main street

The dreams of the seasons

Get all spilled down on the floor

All the big stands of timber

Just waiting for falling

And the hookers standing watchfully

Waiting by the door

So Ill work on the towboats

With my slippery city shoes

Which lord I swore I would never do again

Through the gray fog-bound straits

Where the cedars stand watching

Ill be far off and gone

Like summer wages

Never hit seventeen

When you play against the dealer

You know that the odds

Wont ride with you

And never leave your woman alone

With your friends around to steal her

Shell be gamled and gone

Like summer wages

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And the years are gambled and lost

Like summer wages