Craig Herbertson - Ace of Clubs lyrics

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Beneath the chandeliers

Upon the Persian rugs

Carousers take their stand

Fine whiskey in their hands

The rakes are in the halls

The dugs are in t' the yards

As Fortune's lost and won

Upon a deck o cards

Haloo the horse and hounds

The fox and cubs

The gamblers and the rakes

The sporting bloods

Adieu the decks o cards

The dice and dugs

Adieu my luves

And on yer grave

The Ace of clubs

The Earl o Carrick's son

Has penniless become

The whisper's in the hall

Prestonfield must fa

Up Sir William stands

The deck is in his hands

'I stake my house and lands

Upon a single card! '

The portraits on the wall

The ghosties in the hall

The ancestors appalled

Prestonfield will fa

The nobles and the lords,

Auld reekies big and sma

The baronets a craw

Prestonfield will fa

The count picks up the cards

'The word of peers is law

Should I tup your card

Prestonfield will fall'

And with a deadly grin

He cuts the King of Spades

And as Sir William prays

He draws the Ace Of Clubs

Farewell the rakes and bloods

The whooring and the chase

My drinking days are gone

My gambling nights erased

I'll idle in the grounds

Mak follies in the yards

And never will again

Touch a pack o cards