THE CARD CHEAT


There's a solitary man crying 'hold me'
It's only because he's a lonely
If the keeper of time runs slowly
He won't be alive for Long!
If He Only Had Time to tell of all of the things he planned
With a card up his sleeve, what would he achieve?
It means nothing

To the opuim dens and the bar room gin
In the belmont chair  playing violins
The gamble's face crack into a grin 
As he lay's down the king of spades
But the dealer just stares - 
There's something wrong here, he thinks
The gambler is siezed and forced to his knees and shot dead
He only wanted more time away from the darkest door
But his luck it gave in as the dawn light crept in
And he lay on the floor

Fromt the hundred year war to the crimea
With a lance and a musket and a roman spear
To all of the men who have stood with no fear
In the service of the king
Before you met your fate
Be sure you did no forsake.... your lover...
May no be around anymore

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