Rounder at Twenty One.

[TheBigGuy]

Been listening to some Dave Evans bluegrass.

Hard to find better honky tonk hard travelling tunes out there...Dave has walked that walk, serving time until pardoned for manslaughter....I met the guy after he was let out of the pen....

...
Drank whisky for his liver
smoked cigaretttes for his lungs
loved women for his ego
Died a rounder at 21

Woudnt work down at the sawmill
couldnt stand that hot sunshine
lived 21 years of the real life
lived a thousand in that time'

one night when the blues had got him
must have drank 3/5 of rum
got mean as hell when I told him]
he wouldnt live past 21
when a man ever hit me harder
I dont know when or when
picked me off that old bar floor
said Id sure Id like to be your friend....


,,,,,21 miles to that graveyard
where 21 roses red
told the story of that rounder
at 21 he was dead.