Verse
D G
Brian Hennessey sat back and let the gypsy read his palm
A D
When he saw her eyes grow wide and wild and dark
G
And she whispered through her toothless gums and clutched him by the arm
A D
She said, ''Boy, I fear I see the devil's mark.''
D A D
Brian Hennessey just laughed and pealed the ten-spot from his roll
A
'Cause he'd never ever known the taste of fear
D G
But he wondered why the summer nights should suddenly turn cold
A D
As the gypsy's words come ringing in his ear.
[Chorus]
D G D
''You can run, you can hide, Brian Hennessey.'', she cried
A
''But you can't escape the fate that's in your hand.
D G
And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal?
A D
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man.''
[Verse]
D G
Brian Hennessey walked through the doors of the Dining Dog Saloon
A D
Where he stopped to have his nightly glass of gin
G
And the one-eyed scar-faced stranger a dealing blackjack in the gloom
A D
Winked his ghastly grey glass eye and dealt him in.
D A D
Brian watched in fascination as the stranger's fingers flew
A
Why he'd never seen such cheatin' done before
D G
And his hand closed round a handle of his snub-nose 32
A D
When the gypsy's warning come to him once more.
[Chorus]
D G D
''You can run, you can hide, Brian Hennessey.'', she cried
A
''But you can't escape the fate that's in your hand.
D G
And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal?
A D
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man.''
[Verse]
D G
Brian Hennessey just folded up his cards and walked away
A D
Holding back the rage that burned his soul
G
And he stopped to have some coffee at the Mockingbird Cafe
A D
But that slender blue eyed waitress was his goal.
A D
And a few words from his silver tongue soon turned her flighty head
A
She said, ''My husband's out of town, you need not fear.''
D G
But as he pressed her to the softness of her flutty-feathered bed
A D
On her pillows he saw written bright and clear.
[Chorus]
D G D
Oh, you can run, you can hide, daring letters clear and wide
A
Said you can't escape the fate that's in your hand
D G
And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal
A D
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man.
[Verse]
D G
Brian Hennessey he stumbled down the stairs into the street
A D
And from that day on he changed his wicked life
G
And he never drunk or gambled and he never dealt no doop
A D
And he never touched another fellow's wife.
A D
And years later he met the gypsy when his days were almost done
A
He said, ''Ha, ha, I beat your curse don't you know.''
D G
But when she saw the frightened, trembling, withered wretch that he'd become
A D
She said, ''Brian, you died twenty years ago.''
[Chorus/Outro]
G D
''Because you ran and you hid that's exactly what you did
A
But you didn't escape the fate that's in your hand.
G
And say how did it feel to have dealt your final deal?
A D
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man...''
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