JOHNNY SILVER

WRITTEN FROM SOMEWHERE HE DROPPED HER A LINE

JUST WHERE DOESN’T MATTER HE HAD SOMETHING ON HIS MIND

ANOTHER WOMAN’S IN HIS LIFE THE ONE HE NEEDS SO MUCH

HE THOUGHT SHE SHOULD KNOW HE’S BEEN LOVIN’ LADY LUCK

HE SAID DARLIN’ DON’T CRY JUST TRY TO UNDERSTAND

THERE’S NO WAY ON EARTH TO CHANGE A GAMBLIN’ MAN

GOD KNOWS SHE TRIED BUT THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH

BECAUSE HE LET HER DOWN AND TURNED TO LADY LUCK

CHORUS

JOHNNY SILVER IS HIS NAME KING OF THE GAMBLIN’ SCENE

HE NEVER CHASES WOMEN HE ONLY CHASES GREEN

A DECK OF CARDS, A ROLL OF DICE, HE’S GOOD AT ANY GAME

HE LOVES LADY LUCK JOHNNY SILVER IS HIS NAME

SHE FOUND JOHNNY SILVER IN A HOUSE OF GAMBLIN’ GAMES

SHE THOUGHT HE WOULD SETTLE DOWN AND HOPED THAT HE WOULD CHANGE

JOHNNY WAS A WILD ONE GAMBLIN’ WHEN HE CAN

TOO LATE SHE FOUND OUT YOU CAN’T TAME A GAMBLING MAN

ONE NIGHT HE SAID TO THE DEALER DEAL ME A WINNING HAND

I’VE BEEN LOVIN’ LADY LUCK AND I’M A LUCKY MAN

THE DEALER STOPPED AND GRINNED AND SAID YOU’D BETTER CALL YOUR WIFE

TELL HER YOUR TREASURE SHIP SANK IN VEGAS HERE TONIGHT

REPEAT CHORUS TWICE repeat fourth line in chorus then fade.

Co written by Joe Pickering Jr. and George La Flame King of the Road Music BMI publisher and copyright owner

C 1993