Song Description

Song about card dealer who takes revenge for murdered husband

Lyrics

A friend of mine told me a story
About a woman she happened to know
She could deal five card stud through a blindfold
Solitare when business was slow
Mary Jack was always so friendly
And so expert at cards and dice
She was always so sweet to the men that she?s meet
Then she?d beat them all gambling that night

Bridge
But she never let on, no she never let on
Why she picked such a town for her home
It appeared she was waitin? for someone
But she always went home alone

Then one night a dusty old cowboy
Walked in the saloon around ten
Mary Jack borrowed somebody?s Colt .44
Waltzed up to the stranger and said
?Nine years ago you killed my husband.
You cut a good man down in his prime
And I swore as I knelt down by his deathbead
I?d be certain you paid for your crime?
She took careful aim with the six-gun
She but a bullet through each of his hands
And she smiled as the stranger dropped to the floor
She said ?You?ll never hurt no one again?

Bridge
No she never let on about her man so long gone
Or the hate that burned through her veins
But after she?d settled that murderin? man
Mar Jack was never the same

Mary Jack still works at the tables
But the light is gone from her eyes
She?s settled and she?s kept her promise
But now she?s got nothing to hide
Once in a while Mary Jack takes a drink
And some men have seen her cry
She?s got her revenge but now she?s gone so cold
Mary Jack?s just waitin? to die

©1986 Glen Scandur