Testo Jesse Justice - Joe Ely
Testo della canzone Jesse Justice (Joe Ely), tratta dall'album Happy Songs from Rattlesnake Gulch
Well Jesse was a roving gambler
Nine ball was his game
He kept one step out ahead of his rep
One town out ahead of his fame
I think I might have seen him in Clovis
But the place was kinda loud
Even so it was a long time ago
When my head sorta stayed in the cloud
There's a lotta green in the city
That you can't cut thick or thin
There's a lotta green between fat and lean
That you might never see again
Oh, Jesse
You might never see again
Well I know I saw him in Shreveport
The town this song's about
I was hanging in town
Cause the river was down
Like my sister I was sweating the drought
He was playing some kid from Dallas
Who could out talk a freeway cop
A day and a half they'd been on a rap
Trying to play until the other would drop
There's a lotta green in the city
That you can't cut thick or thin
There's a lotta green between fat and lean
That you might never see again
Oh, Jesse
You might never see again
Carmen wore a red silk dress
She leaned beside the Coke machine
She must have been the prize that was in his eyes
It was clear as gasoline
Twenty-seven hundred on the table
Another twenty-five in the dark
Dallas was talking up a blue streak
And Jesse reached for the chalk
The room got deathly quiet
The newsboy shut his mouth
The cold north wind changed it's mind again
Blew lazy from the south
The Whippoorwills quit singing
Not even the judge did laugh
When Jesse just chalked his saber
And sliced the nine in half
There's a lotta green in the city
That you can't cut thick or thin
There's a lotta green between fat and lean
That you might never see again
Oh, Jesse
You might never see again
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Writer(s): Joe Ely
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