(Ian Tyson)       Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer   For you know the odds won't ride with you   Never leave your woman alone when your friends around to steal her   Years I've gambled and lost like summer wages.      And we'll keep rolling on till we get to Vancouver   And the woman that I love is living there   It's been six long months and more since I've seen her   May be gambled and gone like summer wages.      In all of the beer bars all down along Main Street   The dreams of the seasons get all spilled down on the floor   All the big stands of timber just waitin' for falling   And the hookers waitin' watchfully as they sit there by the door.      So, I'll work on the towboats with my slippery city shoes on   Which I swore I would never do again   Through the gray fog-bound straits where the cedars stand a waitin'   I'll be far off and gone like summer wages.      --- Instrumental ---      In all of the beer bars all down along Main Street   The dreams of the seasons get all spilled down on the floor   All the big stands of timber just waitin' for falling   And the hookers waitin' watchfully as they sit there by the door.      So, I'll work on the towboats with my slippery city shoes on   Which I swore I would never do again   Through the gray fog-bound straits where the cedars stand a waitin'   I'll be far off and gone like summer wages.      Years I've gambled and lost like summer wages...