Name: Dutch Cassidy - The Odds
Duration: P00H03M58S
Description: Recorded for February Album Writing Month, 2015.

Dutch Cassidy - The Odds

from Tintinnitus by Stephen Wordsmith

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Recorded for February Album Writing Month, 2015.

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‘twas a calm Friday night on the bad side of town
With a cigarette perfume pervading the yard
The usual suspects were all seated down
In their eyes were a gleam, in their hands were the cards

There’s Beau
Who once (so I hear) was a looker
But now wears a patch over his vacant eye

And Grace
A minister’s daughter-turned hooker
Who passes the buck like an arsenic pie

To Rock
Who squirms in a fidgety manner
While shooting a look of total unease

At Tex
Who’s really from Louisiana
But just didn’t want to be known as Louise

And all with a squint and a finger on triggers
But I am no such feudalistic old bod
I’m a man of statistics, a fiddler of figures
One eyeball on oddballs, one eye on the odds

Interlude

The cards flutter down as we ante our antes
Rock roughly flips diamonds – a king and an ace
There’s a crease in my brow and a knot in my panties
As calculations can be read on my face

The Chance
Of finding such goods on the table
Is really a most insignificant sum

In fact
I’d be happy to swear it a stable
Three hundred and thirty one chances to one

I know
There’s a one in one-thirty-six chance
To face down an ace with a much larger kicker

This fact
Makes my sense of security dance
And brings quite a rush to my cheeks and my ticker

A little too visibly, as what ensues is:
‘I fold’ ‘and I fold’ ‘and I fold’ ‘I fold too’
My maths might be right, but my poker face? Useless
Oh what is a poor statistician to do?

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from Tintinnitus, released May 23, 2016
Lyrics by Stephen Wordsmith
Vocals, composition and all instruments by J. Olav van der Spree (www.dutchcassidy.com)

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