Queen On The River

Holly killed the joker with the jack of hearts

And then she busted in my windshield with a shopping cart,

And Johnny To's cold as ice and does nothing for show

I passed the threshold and witnessed the scene

Where truth and legend part company

They made two grifters then a watchman let 'em go

Let the queen on the river fall

Let the queen on the river fall

Let the queen on the river fall

So I should take money and go

And I got nothin' left to show

So let the queen on the river fall

Once I took to gambling to shoulder the cost

And my hands got heavy as cinder blocks

The cards took most my glitter and gold

I never lost the vision of a life I want

I was born for trouble raised by a swamp

Then coffee at false dawn passing Hannibal

Let the queen on the river fall

Let the queen on the river fall

Let the queen on the river fall

'Coz I got nowhere else to go

And I got nothin left to show

So let the queen on the river fall

Alec and Mil reclined and wasted

Try to shore up all their youth that's escaping

The society I keep is scarcely hanging on

Let the queen on the river fall

let the queen on the river fall

let the queen on the river fall

I got nowhere else to go

I got no more money to blow

So let the queen on the river fall