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Rising Sun

from Cold Clay by Zombie Swingers

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    An original take on the classic American folk song, a new version wherein a drug addicted gambler confesses the intrigue of his life on the riverboat called "The Rising Sun" and his commitment to a life of desperate sin.
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Rising Sun
C J Leon

The Rising Sun is a riverboat
that floats on a stream of flame;
and I owe it my soul and the clothes that I wear,
and it owns my life and my name.

A lazy fool with some money and an itch in my heart,
I fell in love with a dancing girl,
and I waited for her on the gambling floor.
My God, what a curse I found there!

He was sitting sipping gin with a snarl on his lip,
one black chip on his blackjack hand;
and he doubled on 11 against a dealer's 6.
He won - that's when I met the man.

Like a gull of the sea, red-eyed and white-faced,
he played at a villain's games,
and he cut me the tips of his winningest lines.
Lord, I've never been the same.

I'd nod and I'd tap and I'd click through my stack,
high for three days at a stetch;
and I still had my soul, so I wagered my soul
when there was nothing left to bet.

The dice cracked like bones in a demon's chained grip,
a prize-fighter, I threw my fist,
and I closed my eyes, turned to the silence within,
and cried, Salvation from the pit!

There's no eating, no sleep, with the Devil's rush in your blood;
so don't make meals and don't make my bed.
You won't see me again alive in this life;
and you won't when our bodies are dead;

But Dear Mother, don't cry, you gave me Christ.
You kept me safe from Hell's temptation,
but I belong where the days are three days long,
where there's no night, never a rising sun.

'Cause the Rising Sun is a rivership
that sits on a steaming stream,
and I owe it my soul and the clothes that I wear,
and it owns my life and my dreams.

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from Cold Clay, released October 31, 2008

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