The Dying Crapshooter Blues

Song The Dying Crapshooter Blues
Artist Moriarty
Album Fugitives

Lyrics

[00:08.920] Little Jesse was a gambler, night and day
[00:11.640] And he used crooked cards and dice
[00:15.080] He was a son of guy, good hearted but he had no soul
[00:18.120] Jesse's heart was hard and cold like ice
[00:22.100] Jesse was a wild reckless gambler
[00:24.240] He won a gang of change
[00:26.170] Altho' a many gambler's heart he led in pain
[00:37.690] Jesse began to spend and loose his money
[00:39.060] He began to be blue, sad and all alone
[00:42.470] What broke Jesse's heart while he was blue and all alone
[00:45.630] Sweet Lorena packed up and gone
[00:50.100] And the police walked up and they shot my friend Jesse down, boy
[00:53.820] He got to die someday
[00:56.360] He had a gang, gang and gamblers at his bedside
[01:01.680] And here are the words he had to say
[01:04.280] I guess I ought to know
[01:07.160] Exactly how I want to go
[01:10.900] Eight crapshooters to be my pallbearers
[01:14.220] Let 'em be veiled down in black
[01:17.460] I want nine men going to the graveyard, buddy
[01:20.580] I want eight men coming back
[01:24.620] I want a gang of gamblers gathered 'round my coffin-side
[01:28.360] Crooked card printed on my hearse
[01:34.760] My life has been a doggone curse
[01:51.320] Well, well, well, well
[01:53.120] Send poker players to the graveyard, buddy
[01:55.050] Dig my grave with the ace of spades
[01:58.860] I want twelve polices in my funeral march
[02:02.300] High sheriff playin' blackjack, lead the parade
[02:05.440] I want the judge and solic'ter who jailed me fourty times
[02:09.050] Put a pair of dice in my shoes, what else
[02:13.360] Let a deck of cards be my tombstone, buddy
[02:15.680] I got the dying crapshooter
[02:35.880] Sixteen real good crapshooters
[02:38.820] Sixteen bootleggers to sing a song
[02:42.240] I want sixteen racket men gamblin'
[02:44.720] Couple tend bar while I'm rollin' along
[02:48.770] He wanted twenty two womens outta the Hampton Hotel
[02:52.900] He wanted twenty six off-a South Bell
[02:55.600] He wanted twenty nine women outta North Atlanta
[02:58.860] Know little Jesse didn't pass out so swell
[03:02.400] Well his heart was aching and his head was thumping
[03:06.150] Little Jesse went down bouncin' and jumpin'
[03:10.320] Folks, don't be standing 'round ol' Jesse dying
[03:12.880] He wants everybody to do the Charleston whiles he gone
[03:17.600] One foot up, and a toenail dragging
[03:20.640] Throw my friend Jesse in the hoodoo wagon
[03:24.280] Come here mama with that can of booze
[03:27.070] I got the dyin’ crapshooter's, blues
[03:30.700] The dyin’ crapshooter's blues
[03:33.910] The dyin’ crapshooter

Pinyin

[00:08.920] Little Jesse was a gambler, night and day
[00:11.640] And he used crooked cards and dice
[00:15.080] He was a son of guy, good hearted but he had no soul
[00:18.120] Jesse' s heart was hard and cold like ice
[00:22.100] Jesse was a wild reckless gambler
[00:24.240] He won a gang of change
[00:26.170] Altho' a many gambler' s heart he led in pain
[00:37.690] Jesse began to spend and loose his money
[00:39.060] He began to be blue, sad and all alone
[00:42.470] What broke Jesse' s heart while he was blue and all alone
[00:45.630] Sweet Lorena packed up and gone
[00:50.100] And the police walked up and they shot my friend Jesse down, boy
[00:53.820] He got to die someday
[00:56.360] He had a gang, gang and gamblers at his bedside
[01:01.680] And here are the words he had to say
[01:04.280] I guess I ought to know
[01:07.160] Exactly how I want to go
[01:10.900] Eight crapshooters to be my pallbearers
[01:14.220] Let ' em be veiled down in black
[01:17.460] I want nine men going to the graveyard, buddy
[01:20.580] I want eight men coming back
[01:24.620] I want a gang of gamblers gathered ' round my coffinside
[01:28.360] Crooked card printed on my hearse
[01:34.760] My life has been a doggone curse
[01:51.320] Well, well, well, well
[01:53.120] Send poker players to the graveyard, buddy
[01:55.050] Dig my grave with the ace of spades
[01:58.860] I want twelve polices in my funeral march
[02:02.300] High sheriff playin' blackjack, lead the parade
[02:05.440] I want the judge and solic' ter who jailed me fourty times
[02:09.050] Put a pair of dice in my shoes, what else
[02:13.360] Let a deck of cards be my tombstone, buddy
[02:15.680] I got the dying crapshooter
[02:35.880] Sixteen real good crapshooters
[02:38.820] Sixteen bootleggers to sing a song
[02:42.240] I want sixteen racket men gamblin'
[02:44.720] Couple tend bar while I' m rollin' along
[02:48.770] He wanted twenty two womens outta the Hampton Hotel
[02:52.900] He wanted twenty six offa South Bell
[02:55.600] He wanted twenty nine women outta North Atlanta
[02:58.860] Know little Jesse didn' t pass out so swell
[03:02.400] Well his heart was aching and his head was thumping
[03:06.150] Little Jesse went down bouncin' and jumpin'
[03:10.320] Folks, don' t be standing ' round ol' Jesse dying
[03:12.880] He wants everybody to do the Charleston whiles he gone
[03:17.600] One foot up, and a toenail dragging
[03:20.640] Throw my friend Jesse in the hoodoo wagon
[03:24.280] Come here mama with that can of booze
[03:27.070] I got the dyin' crapshooter' s, blues
[03:30.700] The dyin' crapshooter' s blues
[03:33.910] The dyin' crapshooter