Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold

The wicked king of clubs awoke It was to his queen he turned His lips were laughing as they spoke His eyes like bullets burned The sun's upon a gambling day His queen smiled low and blissfully Lets make some wretched fool to pay And plain it was she did agree He sent his deuce down in to diamond His four to heart, his trey to spade Three kings with their legions come And preparations soon were made They voted club the day's commander Give him an army, face and number All but the outlaw jack of diamond And the aces in the skies He gave his sevens first instructions Said, spirit me a game of stud Stakes unscarred by limitations Tween a man named Gold and a man named Mudd Club filled Gold with greedy vapors Until his long green eyes did glow Mudd was left with sighs and trembles Watching his hard earned money go Flushes fell on Gold like water Tens they paired and they paired again The aces only flew through heaven And the diamond jack called no man friend The diamond queen heard of Mudd's ordeal Began to think of her long lost son Fell to her knees with a mother's mercy Prayed to the angels, every one Well the diamond queen she prayed and prayed And the diamond angel filled Mudd's hole Til the wicked king of clubs himself Fell face down in front of Gold Well three kings come to Club's command But the angels from the sky did ride Three kings upon the streets of Gold Three fireballs on the Muddy side Club queen heard her husband's call But Lord, the queen of diamond's joy When the outlaw in the heavenly hall Turned out to be her wanderin' boy Well Mudd he checked and Gold bet all Mudd he raised and Gold did call And that smile just melted off his face When Mudd turned over that diamond ace Well here's what this story's told You feel like Mudd, you'll end up Gold You feel like lost you'll end up found So amigo lay them raises down