The Jack of Diamonds and the Queen of Hearts
Hit the road and hit the dark
Hit the brakes and tried to park

But they slid off in a ditch

They played the game while the elevator ran

Down the shaft to the promised land
Hit the ground with a heavy hand
The conductor flipped a switch


So the devil he came back on the prowl
Low and steady with a heavy growl

Slowly growing darker now
There's a rapping at the door


It's four ones with an ace of cups
Somehow that just don't add up
Sorry fellas lots of luck

Can't feel that anymore

Chorus:


I called out to my captain
I said, "Sir, I've gone a stray

Am I too far gone to come back now?"
He said, "No, son, I'll meet you halfway"


Well a couple things I've come to know
The good times come, they'll surely go
Liquor's like a torpedo

It tangles as it tears

It slammed into my sinking ship

Wrapped his self in barb-wire fence
Wiped down and cleaned the fingerprints
But drunks had moved the chair


The lazy, burning, turning lanes
Low and looming hurricanes

Twisting up the weathervanes
In the path of least resistance


So I crossed to road way up on high
For a love I cannot deny
With a weathered brow and my crooked eye

Stared off in the distance