Whistle Down The Wind - Charlie Christmas lyrics

[The Man] Charlie went out to the gambling hall And he started to play on the roulette wheel With a quarter on the red and his head in his hands As he watched and he waited till the ball came to rest Old Charlie never moved, he just let his money ride And the red won again, and again, and again He won sixteen times before they found out he was dead For the whole time, what a wonder, he was dead, but still a winner Imagine the shock and the stunning loss of pride For the house had been losing to a man who had died There's gotta come a time when we all gotta go The start is always fast but the ends always slow [Swallow] And the moral is? and the moral is? And the moral is? and the moral is? [The Man] When miss Annie found out she put a gun to her head It was loaded, sixteen bullets She was all dressed in black, she had her necklace on When she fired sixteen bullets Her sons put her in a coffin then they put it in a hearse It was drawn by sixteen horses Then they all got on a barge and they drifted out to sea To see a fallen angel, whose fall was over A fallen angel, with a moustache And there's gotta come a time when we've all gotta go You start out always fast but the ends always slow There's gotta come a time when we've all gotta go You start out always fast but the ends always slow [Swallow, Brat & Poor Baby] And the moral is? and the moral is? And the moral is? and the moral is? [The Man] It was their time to go so they went