Count My Blessings Lyrics - Grifter's Hymnal - Ray Wylie Hubbard

Mama gimme a nickel and a deck of cards 

Said go on and play in the back yard 

Walking down the alley come my Uncle Lonnie 

Said lemme teach ya about Three-card Monte 

Take the ace of hearts and two black queens 

Flip 'em over so they can't be seen 

Spin 'em around four or five times 

Bet a nickel find the ace and win a dime 

Ten minutes later I had thirty five dollars 

Singing ain't misbehaving by the great Fats Waller 

I believe I'm gonna count my blessings 

I believe I'm gonna count my blessings 

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Now I saw a black crow on a fence post 

Singing away like Sam Hopkins's ghost 

He sang when you see I ain't breathing no more 

Nail my feathers to an old barn door 

Or drag my carcass out behind the shed 

Just make sure you're pretty sure I'm dead 

Ask an Ouija board if you can't quite tell 

Or if I start to stink like the floors in hell 

Go to Navasota after I'm done dying 

It don't do you no good sitting around crying 

So I got me a pencil and a moleskin book 

When I heard Bertha Franklin shot and killed Sam Cooke 

Wrote down December 11, 1964 

Ain't gonna be twisting the night away no more 

It took 15 minutes for the jury to decide 

'Cause of death's justified homicide 

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Liza Boyer wasn't called by the prosecution 

Later on she's arrested for prostitution 

La Hacienda motel had a busted down door 

Sam's wallet and his money was never accounted for