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On a warm summer's evening.

On a train bound for doorway,

I met up with the gambling.

We were both too tired to sleep. So we took turns of staring.

Out the window at the darkness,

to boredom overtook us,

and he began to speak.

He said, son, I've made a life

out of reading people's faces and knowing what the cards were by the way they held

their eyes so if you don't mind my saying i can see you're out of aces for a taste of your whiskey

i give you some advice.

So I handed him my bottle, and he drank down my last swallow.

Then he bombed a cigarette and asked me for a light, and the night got deathly quiet.

And his face lost all expression.

Said if you're going to play the game. It's funny because that kind of became Kenny Rogers' signature song.

And you think of that song being Kenny Rogers.

But it was, now he made it his own with his vocal phrasing, Ramon.

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