Album: Wormwood
A great band from southern Illinois playing Trashcan Americana
Verse 1
Got a pretty smile, I can smile too. Smile so big my head’s in two.
You wanna be friends, you can be mine. Keep you happy in the sunshine.
Take my hand, it’s warm you can tell. Feel my heart, it’s hotter than hell
I’ve been there and I can take you too, I can make all your bad dreams come true.
(Slide Licks in )
(5 times) end on
VERSE 2
I like small towns and the people there. Easier money than welfare.
What does it take to get a handout? A sucker to trust you without a doubt.
But they need me and I need them, we’re all red-blooded working men.
Good or bad, where do I stand? Between the devil and a dollar is a confidence man.
CHORUS
It’s a confidence game, I’m a confidence man. Sure as I win, sure as I stand.
Tell you what I am, honest I ain’t. Stab you in the back, smiling like a saint.
Confidence man in a confidence game, I’ll leave you with nothing but your shame.
Your mama warned about a confidence game, she’s been taken in just the same – by a
confidence man.
VERSE 3
When the market dies like it always does everybody’s pockets are lighter than they was.
Evrybody’s mad everybody’s pissed They can’t believe that they were taken by a scam like this
Still they can’t even understand, how they got swindled by an ordinary man
They pay the price, that’s why I came, to make ‘em all losers in a confidence game.
CHORUS
SLIDE LICKS IN G
(5 Times) end on
The guitar solo is done on a dobro/resonator guitar, tuned to open G.