Brian Hennesy-Bobby Bare

[ti:Brian Hennesy] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:The Winner and Other Losers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Brian Hennesy - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare) [00:03.17]Brian Hennessey sat back [00:05.93]And let the gypsy read his palm [00:09.86]When he saw her eyes grow wide and wild and dark [00:14.57] [00:17.14]And she whispered through her toothless gums [00:20.92]And clutched him by the arm [00:23.72]She said Boy I fear I see the devil's mark [00:28.68] [00:30.98]Brian Hennessey just laughed [00:33.80]And pealed the ten spot from his roll [00:37.25] [00:37.81]Because he'd never ever known the taste of fear [00:42.49] [00:44.70]But he wondered why the summer nights should suddenly turn cold [00:50.96] [00:51.66]As the gypsy's words come ringing in his ear [00:56.17] [00:58.28]You can run you can hide Brian Hennessey she cried [01:04.49] [01:05.04]But you can't escape the fate that's in your hand [01:09.69] [01:12.20]And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal [01:18.44]Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man [01:23.14] [01:28.98]Brian Hennessey walked through the doors of the Dining Dog Saloon [01:34.95] [01:35.65]Where he stopped to have his nightly glass of gin [01:40.38] [01:42.58]And the one eyed scar faced [01:45.26]Stranger a dealing blackjack in the gloom [01:48.84] [01:49.35]Winked his ghastly grey glass eye and dealt him in [01:53.95] [01:56.39]Brian watched in fascination as the stranger's fingers flew [02:02.45] [02:03.35]Why he'd never seen such cheating done before [02:07.47] [02:09.79]And his hand closed around a handle of his snub nose 32 [02:15.83] [02:16.95]When the gypsy's warning come to him once more [02:21.21] [02:23.15]Oh you can run you can hide Brian Hennessey she cried [02:30.19]But you can't escape the fate that's in your hand [02:35.12] [02:37.62]And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal [02:43.51] [02:44.04]Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man [02:48.63] [02:54.47]Brian Hennessey just folded up his cards and walked away [03:00.33] [03:01.73]Holding back the rage that burned his soul [03:05.65] [03:08.21]And he stopped to have some coffee at the Mockingbird Cafe [03:14.01] [03:14.76]But that slender blue eyed waitress was his goal [03:19.31] [03:22.07]And a few words from his silver tongue [03:25.50]Soon turned her flutty head [03:27.96] [03:28.83]She said My husband's out of town you need not fear [03:33.48] [03:34.90]But as he pressed her to the softness [03:38.55]Of her flutty feathered bed [03:41.21] [03:41.95]On her pillows he saw written bright and clear [03:46.83] [03:48.04]Oh you can run you can hide daring letters clear and wide [03:55.10] [03:55.64]Said you can't escape the fate that's in your hand [04:00.48] [04:02.92]And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal [04:09.07]Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man [04:13.83] [04:16.57]Brian Hennessey he stumbled down the stairs into the street [04:22.22] [04:23.21]And from that day on he changed his wicked life [04:27.78] [04:29.83]And he never drunk or gambled and he never dealt no dough [04:35.97] [04:36.61]And he never touched another fellow's wife [04:41.75] [04:44.08]And years later he met the gypsy [04:47.69]When his days were almost done [04:50.00] [04:50.75]He said Ha ha I beat your curse don't you know [04:55.86] [04:57.72]But when she saw the frightened trembling [05:00.97]Withered wretch that he'd become [05:03.39] [05:03.95]She said Brian you died twenty years ago [05:08.51] [05:10.79]Because you ran and you hid that's exactly what you did [05:17.57]But you didn't escape the fate that's in your hand [05:22.40] [05:24.93]And say how did it feel to have dealt your final deal [05:31.11]Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man