You might have seen me underneath the pool-hall lights

Well baby, I go back each night

If you got a throat, I got a knife

Steady rollin' and I keep goin'

And I don't mind how quick the seasons change

You know too me there's everyone the same

The sweetest sunshine drips the drain

And it's comin' and I'm still runnin'

Well, I come from the old time, baby

Too late for you to save me

If I remain then I'm to blame

But if you should ever need me

I'll go where you lead me

It's all the same

The same old game

My love and baby, she's a ball and chain

I still can travel but my speed is changed

I bring the money, I take the blame

Steady rollin' and I keep goin'

But I shot my wife today

Dropped her body in the Frisco Bay

I had no choice, it was the only way

And it's comin' and I'm still runnin'

Well, I come from the old time, baby

Too late for you to save me

If I remain then I'm to blame

But if you should ever need me

I'll go where you lead me

It's all the same

The same old game

Out waltzing with the holy ghost

From the Bowery to the Barbary coast

The land I'm from you know I love the most

Steady rollin' and I keep goin'

And every day is just another town

The more I search and though the less I found

Me I'm a sucker just a slave to sound

And it's comin and I'm still runnin'

Well, I come from the old time, baby

Where all the kids are crazy

If I remain then I'm to blame

But if you should ever need me

I'll go where you lead me

It's all the same

The same old game