Townes Van Zandt - Mr Gold & Mr Mud Lyrics
By townes van zandtThe wicked king of clubs awokeIt was to his queen turnedHis lips were laughing as they spokeHis eyes like bullets burnedThe suns upon a gambling dayHis queen smiled low and blissfullyLets make some wretched fool to playPlain it was she did agreeHe send his deuce down into diamondHis four to hart, and his trey to spadeThree kings with their legions comePreparations soon where madeThey voted club the days commanderGave him an army face and numberAll but the outlaw jack of diamondsAnd the aces in the skyHe give his sevens first instructionsSpirit me a game of studStakes unscarred by limitationtween a man named gold and man named mudClub filled gold with greedy vaporstil his long, green eyes did glowMud was left with the sighs and tremblesWatching his hard earned money goFlushes fell on gold like waterTens they paired and paired againBut the aces only flew through heavenAnd the diamond jack called no man friendThe diamond queen saw muds ordealBegan to think of her long lost sonFell to her knees with a mothers mercyPrayed to the angels every oneThe diamond queen, she prayed and prayedAnd the diamond angel filled muds holeThe wicked king of clubs himselfFell in face down in front of goldNow three kings come to clubs commandBut the angels from the sky did rideThree kings up on the streets of goldThree fireballs on the muddy sideThe club queen heard her husbands callBut lord that queen of diamonds joyWhen the outlaw in the heavenly hallTurned out to be a wandering boyNow mud he checked and gold bet allAnd mud he raised and gold did callAnd the smile just melted off his faceWhen mud turned over that diamond aceNow heres what this storys toldIf you feel like mud youll end up goldIf you feel like lost, youll end up foundSo amigo, lay them raises down
