Ace in the Hole - Bobby Short

Now this town is full of guys

Who think they’re mighty wise

Just because they know a thing or two

You can see them everyday

Strolling up and down Broadway

Telling of the wonders they can do

Well, there’s conmen and there’s boosters

Card sharks and crap shooters

They congregate around the Metropole

They wear fancy ties and collars

But where they get their dollars

While they all got an ace in the hole

Some of them write to the old folks for coin

Well, that’s their old ace in the hole

Others have gals on the old Tenderloin

Well, that’s their old ace in the hole

They’ll tell you all the trips

That they are going to take

From Frisco up to that old North Pole

Now their names would be mud

Like a old chump playing stud

If they lost that old ace in the hole

Now some of them write to the old folks for coin

And lets their old ace in the hole

And others well, they have gals on the old Tenderloin

And that’s their old ace in the hole

Well, they’ll tell you all the trips

That they are going to take

From Frisco up to that old North Pole

Now their names would be mud

Like a chump playing stud

If they lost that old ace in the hole

If they lost that old ace in the hole