Down And Out chords by King Louie Bankston

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Verse 1
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Well, I started out, to be honest,
to play life on the square
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But a man came through with
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the golden rule
and a crowd that won't play fair
You don't go down with
a hard chart fall
and just try to shuffle along
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An d  slowly let go of your moral code
till you can't tell right from wrong
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Well, I pulled a deal in Arizona
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in a worked -out silver mine
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But before I'd found it salted down,
I had moved on down the line
I was heading straight for the border
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when the law caught up with me
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I spent six months in a dirty old trunk
before they'd set me free
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It wasn't long till I was
on a freighter
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off the coast of old Mexico
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Smuggling guns on a midnight
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run
cause my pocket was getting low
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I  had sank as low as a man could go,
that walks with an empty purse
I was down and out and busted,
just drifting from bad to worse
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But they say your stars appear by day,
when you're down in a deep dark pit
My lucky star found me that way,
when I was about to quit
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She came like a miracle in the night,
and opened my poor blind eye
I found a new life with a loving wife,
and I thought the past would die
We were wed down in a border town,
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close to old San Antone
She was mine to keep for one short week,
and in a heartbeat she was gone
For the devil sent his right hand man,
I should have known he would
And he took her life with
a long thin knife,
because she was honest and good
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I lost all hope, honor and pride,
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all I could crave and will
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Taunt him down, put him in the ground,
just kill, kill, kill
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I followed his trail for three
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long years
to a town way out west
And I left him there with
a vacant stare
and a 44 in his chest
Now you see these places
on my arm
and you ask me what they mean
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They were put there by my own two hands
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my trained nurse miss morphine
You say that's worse than drinking
and I know too well, you're right
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But it keeps the pain away
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that comes to haunt me in the night
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Now they say they'll give me a year to live
if the law don't get me
first a year or a month
It's all the same once
you felt the devil's curse
Cuz whenever you play
a crooked game
where the stakes are large or small
You just can't win
and you lose in the end
and the dealer gets it all