Summer Wages

Summer Wages - Ian & Sylvia

Never hit 17

When you play against the dealer

For you know that the odds won't ride with you

Never leave your woman alone

When your friends are out to steal her

Years are gambled and gone like summer wages

And we'll keep rollin on 'til we get to Vancouver

And the woman that I love who's living there

It's been 6 long months

And more since I've seen her

May be gambled and gone like summer wages

And all beer parlors all down along main street

The dreams of the seasons are all spilled down on the floor

All the big stands of timber just waiting for falling

And the hookers standing watchfully

Waiting by the door

So I'll work on the towboats

With my slippery city shoes

Which I swore I would never do again

Through the gray fogbound straits

Where the cedars stand watching

I'll be far off and gone like summer wages

And all beer parlors all down along main street

The dreams of the seasons are all spilled down on the floor

All the big stands of timber just waiting for falling

And the hookers standing watchfully

Waiting by the door

So never hit 17

When you play against the dealer

For you know that the odds won't ride with you

Never leave your woman alone

When your friends are out to steal her

Years are gambled and lost like summer wages

Years are gambled and lost like summer wages