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Annie B'Damned (A Game Of Chance)

by Woody Russell - (c)2002
Cats Up The Street Music/ASCAP

A young soldier fell for a romance with a wild beauty from France
A wild beauty from France he called his "Annie B'Damned"
Mama warned her youngest son, "Bad love'll make your blood run cold."
Charlie knew she’d be hard to hold, but Annie made him feel like a man

"Annie B'Damned, for me you're the only one."
"Let's talk later," she said, "right now, a girl's got to have her fun,"
"Help me get these buttons undone."
Mama said, "I warned you, son."

chorus
It's a game of chance with the twins on Parker Street
Don't play it with the girls where the roughnecks meet
Or bet the farm on a blind drunk one night stand
Don't gamble with the lot lizard ladies of the night
Or French girls with a tendency to bite
Trouble comes knockin' when a boy starts thinking like a man
Lost in the quicksand of romance
A boy thinking like a man in love
Is just a game of chance

Charlie said, "I love you, Annie. Will you be my bride?"
"Will you be at my side. I'll love you 'til I die."
Annie said, "I might consider it if you take me to America."
"You take me to America and then I will decide."

Charlie brought Annie to the States in '51
She promptly broke his heart and the hearts of his brothers one by one
A girl’s got to have her fun
Mama said, "I warned you, son."

repeat chorus

bridge
Annie married twice, gave up and went back to France
Charlie still can't trust a girl who won't look him in the eye when they dance
Never again in a love blind trance
Never again with a girl from France
Mama was right 'bout it being a game of chance

Never again in a love blind trance
Never again with a girl from France
Mama was right 'bout it being a game of chance

repeat chorus


[This message has been edited by Brian Austin Whitney (edited 08-31-2002).]