Mississippi Flush

Album: Eternal & Lowdown

Mississippi Flush

 

 

Well they got a little game called 5-card draw

They take it serious in Arkansas

You can make a little money wagering on cards

You can’t get to heaven living this hard

Deliver me from my sorrow and shame

Release me from my burden and pain

 

It’s a one eyed jack and a suicide king

Ace of spades and two black queens

Never draw to an inside straight

I feel a ten knocking at the gate

Deliver me from my sorrow and shame

Release me from my burden and pain

 

Blackbird, blackbird fly away home

Say a prayer over St. John’s bones

           Tell the gamblers they’re gonna die alone

           Blackbird, blackbird fly away home

                     

Blackbird, blackbird come back again’

Don’t tell mamma where I been

Going to the river and I’m gonna jump in

Blackbird, blackbird come back again

               

It’s an ace high straight and all the same suit

Read ‘em and weep this hand can’t lose

Somebody said “That ain’t good enough,

That don’t beat a Mississippi flush”

 

Mr. Ledbetter will you tell me again

What’s a Mississippi flush and how’s it beat this hand

He said “They don’t ask questions in the graveyard

It’s a small revolver and any five cards”.

 

 

Written By Ray Wylie Hubbard

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