Matthew Barber & Jill Barber - Summer Wages lyrics

[Chorus 1] Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer Cause you know that the odds won't ride with you Never leave your woman alone when your friends are out to steal her She might be gambled and gone like summer wages [Verse 1] Then we'll keep rolling on till we get to Vancouver Cause the lady that I love she's living there And it's been six long months or more since I've seen her She might be gambled and gone like summer wages [Chorus 2] In all the beer parlours all down the long mainstreet The dreams of the season are spilled down on the floor Big stands of timber lay there just for falling The hookers standing watchfully waiting by the door [Verse 2] So I work on a tour bus with my slippery city shoes Though I swore I would never do that again Through the great fall down straits where the sea stand awaiting I'll be far down and gone like summer wages [Chorus 2] In all the beer parlours all down the long mainstreet The dreams of the season are spilled down on the floor Big stands of timber lay there just for falling The hookers standing watchfully waiting by the door [Chorus 1] Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer Cause you know that the odds won't ride with you Never leave your woman alone when your friends are out to steal her She might be gambled and gone like summer wages And the year's a gamble and lost like summer wages