The Ballad of Honest Sam

There never was a bad man in the movies
Who could lie and cheat like Honest Sam
In the card room down at Louie's
He'd take the pay from the working man

Lay your cards on the table
And everybody show his hand
Foiled again you sad-eyed loser
Foiled again by Honest Sam

Once there came a simple stranger
And he caught Sammy cheating, words was said
Sam just winked at Joe the Strangler
And Joe he shot that stranger dead

Lay your cards on the table
And everybody show his hand
Foiled again you sad-eyed loser
Foiled again by Honest Sam

Sam, he lives up in a mansion
And he sails his ship out on the sea
And if the devil paid his ransom
I guess he paid for you and me

Lay your cards on the table
And everybody show his hand
Foiled again you sad-eyed loser
Foiled again by Honest Sam