ALL I WANNA DO IS PLAY CARDS - CORB LUND
Tabbed By Barry Miles
Intro (heavy palm mute):
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Well, I guess I really oughta be makin up songs but all I wanna do is play cards.
I know it's dumb and sick and wrong but all I wanna do is play cards.
Got the studio booked in tennessee
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and my record producer's callin me
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The tape will roll in just three weeks and all I wanna do is play cards.
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They wanna book the band for a rodeo dance and all I wanna do is play cards.
The contract claims they got five grand but all I wanna do is play cards.
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My agent says we oughta take the show
but tell you the truth I don't wanna go
cuz there's this real good game of split hi-lo and all I wanna do is play cards.
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Chorus: (with I-V bass line)
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Crib and guts and stook and gin and stud and cowboy pitch
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Blackjack, eight or better, hold em and draw, chase the bitch
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Acey deucy, never loosey, hearts and black mariah
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Smear and low chicago, man, the stakes keep gettin higher
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Verse:
I could skate for free in the hockey league but all I wanna do is play cards.
Tattooed young dark haired girls call me and all I wanna do is play cards.
There's famous people?d like to write with me
And the beer at the black dog?s usually free
The whole damn world?s an oyster to me and all I wanna do is play cards.
Main Riff
Verse:
We're on the radio in el paso and all I wanna do is play cards.
Finally got a little bit of press in t.o. and all I wanna do is play cards.
They're buying the records out in amsterdam
There's rock tours booked in far off lands
but i'm feelin kinda gambley and all I wanna do is play cards.
Chorus
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Verse:
I don?t see much of my friends these days cuz all I wanna do is play cards.
Except whitey and gravy, they like a game and all I wanna do is play cards.
My neighbor Brent says I got a problem
But he don't know cuz nobody taught him
To bet the best when you know you got ?em and all I wanna do is play cards.
Chorus
Contract bridge and spades and whist and kings and little ones
Canasta, hearts and spite and malice, kings make little ones
Whores and fours and one-eyed bores, house rules that ain't acknowledged
And them games you learned at vet school And at agricultural college
Chinese rummy, greek manila, omaha, dutch chase
Start em when they're young with fish and war and crazy eights
Twenty one and thirty one and seven twenty seven
Well if i don't play for money, hon, will i still get to heaven
