Your Rockin'chair Lyrics - Stan Ridgway

A gamblin' man was dealin' 

I drew a jack a' spades 

A-way down in the swamp somewhere 

Deep in the Everglades 

The candle on the table 

Lit up your face and hair 

I lost it at the game but then 

I won your rockin' chair 

Chorus: 

Your rockin' chair 

Your rockin' chair 

Now, I can hear the creakin' 

The sound there on the floor 

The way ya rock that chair with me 

Just makes me want some more 

The legs are carved and slender 

The seat is soft as snow 

And when we get to sittin' down 

It's back and forth we go 

Chorus repeat 

Now other chairs I sat in 

May I pay you regard 

None never fit me quite as snug 

Or rocked me quite as hard 

Now when you think of sittin' down 

In some new rockin' chair 

No other one's in mind but yours 

And nothin' will compare 

So now the night is darker 

Don't know what's 'round the bend 

I'm back there at the table 

And I'm losin' once again 

The years go by like lightnin' 

A year seems like a week 

But I still every night think of 

Rockin' there in your seat 

Chorus repeat 

The way you move in moonlight 

Yeah, you always took me in 

The wind blow through your curtains 

And the way ya burned the gin 

And then you'd start to dancin' 

Hear the music from the shore 

You'd pull out that old rockin' chair 

And rock me on the floor 

I wake up in the mornin' 

Here in this vacant lot 

That bottle in my hand 

So I just took another shot 

Sometimes in life a hand is dealt 

That you don't think is fair 

But you can fold, or maybe bluff 

Or ride that rockin' chair 

Chorus repeat x2