Now this town is full of guys   Who think they're mighty wise   Just because they know a thing or two      You can see them everyday   Strolling up and down Broadway   Telling of the wonders they can do      Well, there's conmen and there's boosters   Card sharks and crap shooters   They congregate around the Metropole      They wear fancy ties and collars   But where they get their dollars   While they all got an ace in the hole      Some of them write to the old folks for coin   Well, that's their old ace in the hole   Others have gals on the old Tenderloin   Well, that's their old ace in the hole      They'll tell you all the trips   That they are going to take   From 'Frisco up to that old North Pole      Now their names would be mud   Like a old chump playing stud   If they lost that old ace in the hole      Now some of them write to the old folks for coin   And lets their old ace in the hole   And others well, they have gals on the old Tenderloin   And that's their old ace in the hole      Well, they'll tell you all the trips   That they are going to take   From 'Frisco up to that old North Pole      Now their names would be mud   Like a chump playing stud   If they lost that old ace in the hole   If they lost that old ace in the hole