Deal of a Lifetime.


from the ABC set

You can have pockets, where there used to be holes:
work from an office, instead of telegraph poles.
Lincoln in a garage, weekends in a truck
there ain't no secret, just the butterfly of luck.
You want a cigarette, pal, ask me for a light,
I'll give you points difference on a welter-weight fight.
Take my card buddy, gimme a jailhouse call,
gonna need me one day or I'm no judge at all.
Wanna take the gamble on the cashier's no sale,
take the nickel for a stick-up and be Jonah in the whale?
Leave a message with the barkeep, ask for me by name
- we'll do it with a contract, thanks all the same.
I got plenty money, if it's alright with you,
the price is the soul, buddy, and not from your shoe.

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Comments

camilla | May 21, 2009 - 11:13

That old devil keeps on trying doesnt he,even for a working man.It set nicely in a blue collar mans world.

FTSE100 | May 21, 2009 - 11:14

I'm a banker. Where do I sign?

Ewan | May 21, 2009 - 11:20

You ain't no banker; or you ain't read your employment contract...

Mr D

FTSE100 | May 21, 2009 - 15:08

You misunderstand me, Mr. D. I'm an unemployed banker, I have no morals, I'll sign anything anywhere anytime if there's some cash in it. Sorry you couldn't acommodate me, the Moonies sound more like my kinda people.

Dynamaso | May 26, 2009 - 04:58

Set this to a dirty blues sound and it would be a hit, providing you sign your name, of course.