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( Poker night song lyrics )
IF IT'S MY WIFE, I'M NOT HERE
Copyright © 2009 - MickTerry.com

You guys are the best.
Seven card draw ev'ry We'n'sday night.
Sure beats Bible class.
Winner takes all in our masculine rite.
My wife thinks I'm deep in study.
Well, I study your faces for the traces of bluff.
My life could get pretty bloody
if she found any aces stuck inside my left cuff.

A   IF IT'S MY WIFE, I'M NOT HERE.
    You haven't seen me since late last year.
    IF IT'S MY WIFE, don't let on I'm having fun.

How long has this been?
Ev'ry week at eight for the past- three years.
Vodka, rum and gin:
we self-medicate sometimes only with beer.
By now, I would be a scholar
if I'd studied each We'n'sday 'stead of playing these cards.
My cow has me by the collar.
But this bull needs some leeway or he'll rip his cage apart.

    CHORUS  A

        A man's got to do what a man's got to do.
        His home is his castle or so the saying goes.
        A man's got to do what a man's got to do
        unless his wife is a hassle. Then he gets what he chose.

Ash trays piled with butts.
Smoke is thick and layered from the seven cigars.
Shuffle, then the cut.
None's a millionaire from the way we play cards.
I can't let them know I'm henpecked.
Not a time to show weakness in the Preakness of this game.
I can't let them know I'm henpecked.
Then the phone starts to ringing and we're thinking all the same.

B  "IF IT'S MY WIFE, I'M NOT HERE.
    She'll kill me again like she did last year.
    IF IT'S MY WIFE, don't let on I'm having fun."

    CHORUS  A

Copyright © 2009  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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1-5-10:
Dedicated to Steve Kramer's poker-faced buddies.
May their wives appreciate them as much as
they appreciate the poker night away.

To other gambling song lyrics:   MORONGO, MORONGO
WORN OUT BY OUR VACATION
WINNING WITH A LOSING HAND
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