
Date of issue: 18.01.2007
Song language: English
Jesse Justice |
Well Jesse was a rovin' gambler |
Nine ball was his game |
He kept one step out ahead of his Rep |
One town out ahead of his fame |
I think I mighta seen him in Clovis |
But the place was kinda loud |
Even so, it was a long time ago |
When my head sorta stayed in a cloud |
There’s a lotta green in the city |
That you can’t cut thick or thin |
There’s a lot of green between fat and lean |
That you might never see again, Oh, Jesse |
You might never see again |
Well I KNOW I saw him in Shreveport |
The time this song’s about |
I was hangin' in town 'cause the river was down |
Like my sister I was sweatin' the drought |
He was playin' some kid from Dallas |
Who could out talk a freeway cop |
A day and a half they’d been on a raft |
Tryin' to play till the other would drop |
There’s a lotta green in the city |
That you can’t cut thick or thin |
There’s a lot of green between fat and lean |
That you might never see again, Oh, Jesse |
You might never see again |
Carmen wore a red silk dress |
She lean’d beside the coke machine |
She must have been the prize that was in his eyes |
It was as clear as gasoline |
Twenty seven hundred on the table |
Another twenty five in the dark |
Dallas was talkin' up a blue streak |
As Jesse reached for the chalk |
The room got deathly quiet |
The newsboy shut his mouth |
The cold north wind changed it’s mind again |
And blew lazy from the south |
The whippoorwills quit singin' |
Not even the judge did laugh |
When Jesse Justice chalked his saber |
And sliced the 9 in half |
There’s a lotta green in the city |
That you can’t cut thick or thin |
There’s a lot of green between fat and lean |
That you might never see again, Oh, Jesse |
You might never see again |
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---|---|
Gambler's Bride | 1976 |
If You Were A Bluebird | 1976 |
Suckin' A Big Bottle Of Gin | 1976 |
Tennessee's Not The State I'm In | 1976 |
All My Love | 1976 |
Rock Me My Baby | 1980 |
Dallas | 2000 |
I Keep Gettin' Paid The Same | 1980 |
Wishin' For You | 1979 |
Dam Of My Heart | 1980 |
Hard Livin' | 1980 |
Bet Me | 1980 |
I Had My Hopes Up High | 1995 |
Road Hawg | 1980 |
Hold On | 1980 |
Dig All Night | 1987 |
Row Of Dominoes | 2011 |
Settle For Love | 1987 |
Behind The Bamboo Shade | 1987 |
Rich Man, Poor Boy | 1987 |