Standard (EADGBE)

You might have seen me 'neath the pool hall lights.

Well baby I go back each night.

If you got a throat I got a knife.

Steady rollin', I keep goin'.

I don't mind how quick the seasons change.

You know to me they's every one the same.

The sweetest sunshine drips the drain.

Death's comin', I'm still runnin'.

Well I come from the old time baby,

too late for you to save me.

If I remain then I'm to blame .

But if you should ever need me,

I'll go where'er you lead me.

It's all the same, the same old game .

My lovin' lady she's a ball and chain.

I still can travel but my speed has changed.

I bring the money, I take the blame.

Steady rollin', I keep goin'.

But I shot my wife today,

dropped her body in the Frisco bay.

I had no choice it was the only way.

Death's comin', I'm still runnin'.

Well I come from the old time baby,

too late for you to save me.

If I remain then I'm to blame .

But if you should ever need me,

I'll go where'er you lead me.

It's all the same, the same old game .

Out waltzin' with the Holy Ghost,

from the Bowery to the Barbary Coast.

The land I'm from you know I love the most.

Steady rollin', I keep goin'.

And everyday is just another town.

The more I search you know the less I've found.

Me, I'm a sucker, just a slave to sound.

Death's comin', I'm still runnin'.

Well I come from the old time baby,

too late for you to save me.

If I remain then I'm to blame .

But if you should ever need me,

I'll go where'er you lead me.

It's all the same, the same old gam e.