I made a promise to myself Someday I'd return to these shores The silver coastline white with waves The heather green on the moor For I have left a life behind I live as a gamblin' man Searchin' for that wild high card To play a winnin' hand And I wandered into a smugler's saloon Shadows dancin' on the wall At a table green we played our cards And we drank from glasses tall And next to me a woman wept Her eyes watchin' fortune and fame And as I played my last high card But I could not leave the game ♪ Lady Luck is a cold mistress Both passionate and proud I'm the fool who tries to find Her face among the crowd Seekin' her reflection I could never see her face 'Til I played my last high card And fell into her embrace And now the game has ended at last In the cold gray light of dawn Hands of time unties the blinds In the mornin' we are gone And the lovely ladies lingerin' Like the waves upon the sail And as I breathe the cool mornin' air I hold the winnin' hand