Jesse Justice Lyrics - Ely Joe

Well Jesse was a rovin' gambler 

Nine ball was his game 

He kept one step out ahead of his Rep 

One town out ahead of his fame 

I think I mighta seen him in Clovis 

But the place was kinda loud 

Even so, it was a long time ago 

When my head sorta stayed in a cloud 

There's a lotta green in the city 

That you can't cut thick or thin 

There's a lot of green between fat and lean 

That you might never see again, Oh, Jesse 

You might never see again 

Well I KNOW I saw him in Shreveport 

The time this song's about 

I was hangin' in town 'cause the river was down 

Like my sister I was sweatin' the drought 

He was playin' some kid from Dallas 

Who could out talk a freeway cop 

A day and a half they'd been on a raft 

Tryin' to play till the other would drop 

There's a lotta green in the city 

That you can't cut thick or thin 

There's a lot of green between fat and lean 

That you might never see again, Oh, Jesse 

You might never see again 

Carmen wore a red silk dress 

She lean'd beside the coke machine 

She must have been the prize that was in his eyes 

It was as clear as gasoline 

Twenty seven hundred on the table 

Another twenty five in the dark 

Dallas was talkin' up a blue streak 

As Jesse reached for the chalk 

The room got deathly quiet 

The newsboy shut his mouth 

The cold north wind changed it's mind again 

And blew lazy from the south 

The whippoorwills quit singin' 

Not even the judge did laugh 

When Jesse Justice chalked his saber 

And sliced the 9 in half 

There's a lotta green in the city 

That you can't cut thick or thin 

There's a lot of green between fat and lean 

That you might never see again, Oh, Jesse 

You might never see again