Ace in the Hole - Hank Thompson

This world is full of guys who think they’re mighty wise

Who’d like to change the way our country’s run

These hippies and demonstrators

Draft-dodgers and agitators

Want old age benefits at 21

You see them everyday from New York to LA

But you never see them on the old payroll

They drive foreign cars and Mustangs

Wears sandals, beads and such things

But they all have an ace down in the hole

Some of them get paid for parades with protest signs

That’s they’re old ace down in the hole

Others have friends in the old welfare line

That’s they’re old ace down in the hole

There’s not a college campus they can’t overrun

From Harvard down to the Cotton Bowl

But shave away their beards

And wash behind their ears

Then they’d lose that old ace down in the hole

They’ll brag about riots they participated in

From Florida up to the old North Pole

And if we stop our givin' they have to earn a livin'

And they’d lose that old ace down in the hole