Summer Wages (LP版)-Nanci Griffith

[ti:Summer Wages (LP版)] [ar:Nanci Griffith] [al:Other Voices Too] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Summer Wages (LP版) - Nanci Griffith (南西·葛瑞芬) [00:17.88]Never hit seventeen [00:22.16]When you play against the dealer [00:26.26]You know that the odds [00:29.23]Won't ride with you [00:32.11] [00:33.22]And never leave your woman alone [00:36.37] [00:37.42]With your friends around to steal her [00:41.04]She'll be gambled and gone [00:44.64]Like summer wages [00:48.86] [00:50.74]And we'll keep rollin' on [00:53.68] [00:54.49]'Til we get to vancouver [00:58.03]And the woman that I love [01:01.47]She's living there [01:03.31] [01:05.55]It's been six long months [01:08.70] [01:09.70]And more since I've seen her [01:13.32]Years have gambled and gone [01:16.85]Like summer wages [01:20.94] [01:23.30]In all the beer parlors [01:26.53] [01:27.24]All down along main street [01:30.95]The dreams of the seasons [01:34.72]Get all spilled down on the floor [01:37.52] [01:38.71]All the big stands of timber [01:42.32]Just waiting for the falling [01:45.53] [01:46.27]And the hookers stand and watchfully [01:50.30]Waiting by the door [01:52.86] [01:55.10]So I'll work on the towboats [01:58.74] [01:59.35]With my slippery city shoes [02:02.76]Which I swore I would never do again [02:07.89] [02:10.43]Through the the gray fog bound straits [02:13.66] [02:14.51]Where the cedars stand watching [02:18.06]I'll be far off and gone [02:21.57]Like summer wages [02:25.29] [02:44.98]In all the beer parlors [02:48.60]All down along main street [02:52.30] [02:52.86]The dreams of the seasons [02:56.21]Get all spilled down on the floor [02:59.04] [03:00.07]All the big stands of timber [03:03.76]Just waiting for the falling [03:06.96] [03:07.71]And the hookers stand and watchfully [03:11.22] [03:11.74]Waiting by the door [03:14.40] [03:16.66]Never hit seventeen [03:20.13] [03:20.81]When you play against the dealer [03:24.92]You know that the odds [03:27.85]Won't ride with you [03:30.86] [03:31.92]And never leave your woman alone [03:35.18] [03:36.02]With your friends around to steal her [03:39.70]She'll be gambled and gone [03:43.33]Like summer wages [03:47.56] [03:48.81]And the years are gambled and lost [03:52.85]Like summer wages