Don’t Play Cards for Money With Corby Lund

There's a lot of people playing poker nowadays
You might wanna get hip to that craze
Just remember it's not a game of chance
And never under any circumstance
No matter what you do in any situation--

Don't play cards for money with Corby Lund
Even though at first, it might seem like fun
At the start he might let you win you know
But in the end he'll skin you so
You stumble away from the table feeling stunned--
Don't play cards for money with Corby Lund

The cowboys of the prairies and the roughnecks of the oil sands
Love the way Corby's songs evoke the beauty of Albertan lands
But when he saunters into the casino
They just sigh and hand over all their dough
What's the point in prolonging the invevitable humiliation?--

Don't play cards for money with Corby Lund
If you're a Mormon, you'll just wind up broke and shunned
Don't try to appeal to his Christian charity
(He’s not Christian!)
He worships Norse mythology
And the eternal winter of Ragnarok is coming for you my son—
Don't play cards for money with Corby Lund

He went down and toured Australia in 2004
Now he's banned from entering the country forevermore
‘Cause those koalas don’t seem so cute and wise, brother
When poverty forces them to cannibalize each other
The whole outback can hear ‘em when they eat their young---

Don't play cards for money with Corby Lund
Don't play cards for money with Corby Lund
Every disadvantaged marsupial
With its empty pocket, instead of full
--Silent testimony to the economic devastation--
Don't play cards for money with Corby Lund

This is one of those times when Kenny Rogers would
Tell you:
“Run!”
Don't play cards for money with Corby Lund