Mike Mcclure - Jack of Diamonds lyrics

rate me

The Jack of Diamonds and the Queen of Hearts

Hit the road and hit the dark

Hit the brakes and tried to park

But they slid off in a ditch

They played the game while the elevator ran

Down the shaft to the promised land

Hit the ground with a heavy hand

The conductor flipped a switch

So the devil he came back on the prowl

Low and steady with a heavy growl

Slowly growing darker now

There's a rapping at the door

It's four ones with an ace of cups

Somehow that just don't add up

Sorry fellas lots of luck

Can't feel that anymore

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I called out to my captain

I said, "Sir, I've gone a stray

Am I too far gone to come back now?"

He said, "No, son, I'll meet you halfway"

Well a couple things I've come to know

The good times come, they'll surely go

Liquor's like a torpedo

It tangles as it tears

It slammed into my sinking ship

Wrapped his self in barb-wire fence

Wiped down and cleaned the fingerprints

But drunks had moved the chair

The lazy, burning, turning lanes

Low and looming hurricanes

Twisting up the weathervanes

In the path of least resistance

So I crossed to road way up on high

For a love I cannot deny

With a weathered brow and my crooked eye

Stared off in the distance

Chorus x2