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