Dying Crapshooter's Blues-Blind Willie McTell/Tampa Joe/The Cafe Society Band/Hard Hair

[ti:Dying Crapshooter's Blues] [ar:Blind Willie McTell] [al:Crime & Punishment] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dying Crapshooter's Blues - Blind Willie McTell/Tampa Joe/The Cafe Society Band/Hard Hair [00:15.50]Little Jesse was a gambler night and day [00:18.57] [00:19.69]He used crooked cards and dice [00:22.59] [00:23.75]Sinful guy good hearted but had no soul [00:26.83] [00:27.87]Heart was hard and cold like ice [00:29.69] [00:32.21]Jesse was a wild reckless gambler [00:34.00]Won a gang of change [00:35.10] [00:36.05]Altho' a many gambler's heart he led in pain [00:38.52] [00:41.31]What broke Jesse's heart while he was blue and all alone [00:44.24] [00:45.76]His heart had even turned to stone [00:48.06] [00:51.19]Police walked up and shot my friend Jesse down [00:54.29] [00:55.33]Boys i got to die today [00:57.21] [00:59.31]He had a gang of crapshooters and gamblers at his bedside [01:01.93] [01:03.24]Here are the words he had to say: [01:05.21] [01:06.87]Guess I ought to know [01:08.43] [01:10.51]Exactly how I wants to go [01:12.92](How you wanna go Jesse ) [01:14.01] [01:15.29]Eight crapshooters to be my pallbearers [01:17.29] [01:18.87]Let 'em be veiled down in black [01:20.87] [01:21.80]I want nine men going to the graveyard bubba [01:25.34]And eight men comin back [01:27.28] [01:28.61]I want a gang of gamblers gathered 'round my coffin-side [01:31.77] [01:32.45]Crooked card printed on my hearse [01:34.53] [01:35.76]Don't say the crapshooters'll never grieve over me [01:38.91] [01:39.45]My life been a doggone curse [01:41.77] [01:43.22]Send poker players to the graveyard [01:44.99] [01:46.50]Dig my grave with the ace of spades [01:48.82] [01:49.51]I want twelve polices in my funeral march [01:52.28] [01:52.85]High sheriff playin' blackjack lead the parade [01:55.35] [01:56.30]I want the judge and solic'ter who jailed me 14 times [01:59.46] [02:00.22]Put a pair of dice in my shoes (then what ) [02:04.15]Let a deck of cards be my tombstone [02:06.49]I got the dyin' crapshooter's blues [02:08.70] [02:11.86]Sixteen real good crapshooters [02:14.10] [02:15.39]Sixteen bootleggers to sing a song [02:17.58] [02:18.67]Sixteen racket men gamblin' [02:20.68] [02:21.30]Couple tend bar while i'm rollin' along [02:23.78] [02:24.91]He wanted 22 womens outta the Hampton Hotel [02:27.54] [02:28.45]26 off-a South Bell [02:30.47] [02:31.72]29 women outta North Atlanta [02:34.65]Know