I never got famous
I just got dead broke
But I played to win or to lose
It's all the same to a failed revolutionary
And my gang of fair weather friends are roaming the town
And when the dice are hot they're with me
But when it's cold they are nowhere to be found
Never never, you can never cry
Never never, you can never cry
A pair of aces
Beneath my hand
With three more queens
You can call me a jack with a knife in his head
It's like a sharp repeated stab wound
To the boys around the table
I was a lucky fool so I continue to press my luck
Tah loo rye, tah loo rye
Tah loo rye eye eye eye
You can never, never
You can never cry
Yeah
The first time I warned him
"Back off" through the haze of cigarettes
The second time I slammed my fist up against his head
And in a matter of seconds I'm down on the floor
Beneath all the tables in the room
I see likeness of cloven hooves
Never, never
You can never cry
Tah loo rye, tah loo rye
Tah loo rye eye eye eye
Well some folks move to Florida
To live a century and die
But me I went to New Orleans at twenty three
To die with no dreams and
Opium and slow burning whiskey and disappearing girls
Tombstone shadows replacing the holes
That once were eyes that can never cry
You can never cry
You can never never
You can never cry
Hey!
Whoa
TV, love and magazines and movie screens
Follow a stranger, maybe me
Maybe someone that you will never know
And call him a winner, a victor, a vagabond
Someone who speaks another language
Or someone who speaks a dead tongue
Never, never
You can never cry
Tah loo rye oo
Tah loo rye eye eye eye
You can never cry