| I used to be a gambling man, but I it in
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| The weird thing was that I could never win
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| I studied the system to a fault, thought I had had it made
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| Naive to the tricks of the table and the tricks of the trade
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| And once you see the sleight of hand, it’s never the same
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| And once you see the cards are marked, you know it’s all in the game
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| evens
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| Blacks were reds, and reds became blues
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| Jacks were Queens; |
| Queens were Kings; |
| Kings were Jokers
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| Twos were aces, and aces were twos
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| And if you right, rolled right, ran right, nothing would come my way
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| You gotta realize that you can never win
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| And that’s the only rule of the game
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| And once you see the sleight of hand, it’s never the same
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| And once you see the cards are marked, you know it’s all in the game
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| And once you see the sleight of hand, it’s never the same
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| And once you see the cards are marked, you know it’s all in the game
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| And once you see the sleight of hand, it’s never the same
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| And once you see the cards are marked, you know it’s all in the game
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| And once you see the sleight of hand, it’s never the same
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| And once you see the cards are marked, you know it’s all in the game |