little jesse was a gambler night and day he used crooked cards and dice sinful guy good hearted but had no soul heart was hard and cold like ice jesse was a wild reckless gambler won a gang of change altho a many gambler s heart he led in pain began to spend a loose his money began to be blue sad and all alone his heart had even turned to stone what broke jesse s heart while he was blue and all alone sweet lorena packed up and gone police walked up and shot my friend jesse down boys i got to die today he had a gang of crapshooters and gamblers at his bedside here are the words he had to say guess i ought to know exactly how i wants to go eight crapshooters to be my pallbearers let em be veiled down in black i want nine men going to the graveyard bubba and eight men comin back i want a gang of gamblers gathered round my coffin side crooked card printed on my hearse don t say the crapshooters ll never grieve over me my life been a doggone curse send poker players to the graveyard dig my grave with the ace of spades i want twelve polices in my funeral march high sheriff playin blackjack lead the parade i want the judge and solic ter who jailed me 14 times put a pair of dice in my shoes let a deck of cards be my tombstone i got the dyin crapshooter s blues sixteen real good crapshooters sixteen bootleggers to sing a song sixteen racket men gamblin couple tend bar while i m rollin along he wanted 22 womens outta the hampton hotel 26 off a south bell 29 women outta north atlanta know little jesse didn t pass out so swell his head was achin heart was thumpin little jesse went to hell bouncin and jumpin folks don t be standin around ole jesse cryin he wants everybody to do the charleston whilst he dyin one foot up a toenail dragging throw my buddy jesse in the hoodoo wagon come here mama with that can of booze the dyin crapshooter s leavin the world the dyin crapshooter s goin down slow with the dyin crapshooter s blues
['acoustic blues', 'american folk revival', 'appalachian folk', 'blues', 'country blues', 'delta blues', 'piedmont blues', 'traditional blues', 'traditional folk']