Skin Game

Skin Game - Peg Leg Howell

When I came to Georgia

Money and clothes I had babe

All the money I had done gone

My Sunday clothes in pawn

Sunday clothes in pawn

Sunday clothes in pawn

Lovin' babe my

Sunday clothes in pawn

Said you better let a deal go down

The skin game's comin' to a close

And you better let the deal go down

Hold the cards

A dollar more

Two more halves

A dollar more the deuce beat a nine

A dollar more the deuce beat a nine

Lovin' babe

A dollar more the deuce beat a nine

Went out to the skin game last night

Thought I'd have some fun

Lost all the money that I had made

Had to pawn my special gun

Had to pawn my special gun

Had to pawn my special gun

Lovin' babe

Had to pawn my special gun

Said you better let a deal go down

The skin game's comin' to a close

And you better let the deal go down

Says gambled all over Missouri

Gambled all through Spain babe

Police come to arrest me babe

And they did not know my name

And they did not know my name

And they did not know my name

Lovin' babe

And they did not know my name

Better let a deal go down

Skin game's comin' to a close

And you better let your deal go down

Hold the cards

A dollar more the deuce beat a nine

Half more too

Put up over there nigga

Better let the deal go down

Says you better let the deal go down

Gambled all over Missouri

Gambled through

Tennessee babe

Soon as I reached old Georgia

'Niggers carried a handcuff to me

The niggers carried a handcuff to me

Babe the niggas carried a handcuff to me

Lovin' babe

And the niggas carried a handcuff to me

Better let a deal go down

Skin game's comin' to a close

And you better let the deal go down