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Song title: Fist full of dollars


Fist full of dollars - Version 1

Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night
Now that town is in for a fight
Frighten'd of the dice they roll
Where the highway ends and the sands turn to gold
Where the turnpike ends and turns to gold
Me and my baby
Well I drew my money from the Central Trust
And I hopped with my guitar on a greyhound bus
Heading down south money...guitar in my hand
On a one way ticket to the promised land
Out where ???
Down where the ??? turn to rust
And a weekend... a weeks pay baby
And the weeks pay in a minute just turns to dust
Me again baby I wouldn't leave
Again 'till I believe
Some gonna stand man and some gonna fall
Some ain't gonna get to play the game at all
Where they give you the worst and they take the best
For a fist full of dollars and a little bit less

Well a book ???
And I took my guitar baby and put her in hock
Baby what's a poor boy gonna do?
A fist full of dollars and a little bit less

Notes: 1981 Home demo. This will later evolve in Atlantic City passing through Atlantic City - "dead out of luck" version


Fist full of dollars - Version 2

Well they shot the chicken man in Philadelphia last night
Now that whole town is in for a hell of a fight
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??? casinos
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Its all for a fistfull of dollars and a little bit less

Now they opened up the cost
Where the rich get richer and the poor and the rest get lost
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And they upped the ante
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For a fistfull of dollars and a little bit less

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For a fistfull of dollars and a little bit less
A fistfull of dollars

Notes: 1981 Home demo. This will later evolve in Atlantic City, passing through Atlantic City - "dead out of luck" version


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This song has never been published on any official release.

Never played in regular set.
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Originally recorded acoustically for the NEBRASKA album, but then left out of the album
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