Never hit seventeen
When you play against the
dealer for you know
The odds won't ride with you
Never leave your woman alone
When your friends are out to
steal her years again
And lost like summer wages
And we'll keep rollin' on
till we get to Vancouver
And the one that I love
is livin' there
It's been six long months
and more since I've seen her
Never made the gamble
and gone like summer
wages
In all of the beer bars
down along Main Street
The dreams of the season
are all spilled out on the floor
Are the big stands of timber
just waiting for the fall
And the hookers waiting watchfully
as they sit there by the door
So I'll work on the towboats
with my slippery city shoes on
Which I swore I would never do
again
Through the gray fog -bound streets
Where the cedars stand waiting
I'll be far off and gone like summer wages
And all of the beer bars
down along Main Street
The dreams of the season
are all spilled out on the floor
By the big stands of timber
just waiting for the fall
And the hookers waiting watchfully
as they sit there by the door
So I'll work on the towboats
with my slippery city shoes on
Which I swore I would nev
er do again
Through the grey fog -bound streets
where the cedars stand waiting
I'll be far off and gone like
summer wages
Years I gambled and
lost like summer wages