Name: The King Of Spades
Duration: P00H02M43S
Description: This is one of my most popular live songs. I usually play this before the end of the show. The guitar solo I usually do I can't do on 12 string without making the levels jump on the recording. This song is from a story I read in the life section of the newspaper. The guy seemed to be stretching the truth, being 85 years old and all. So I set the record straight with this song.

The King Of Spades

from Dawning Of A New Day (2012) by Dan Frechette

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This is one of my most popular live songs. I usually play this before the end of the show. The guitar solo I usually do I can't do on 12 string without making the levels jump on the recording. This song is from a story I read in the life section of the newspaper. The guy seemed to be stretching the truth, being 85 years old and all. So I set the record straight with this song.

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The King Of Spades

There is a wild old gambler
who just turned 85
he loves his tango dancing
martinis keep him alive
and he leaves you with a melody
he sang back in the war
of the lovely little Linda,
the girl who kept him sore.

(Chorus)
"Aller ou? Aller la!
Voulez vous couchez avec moi, ce soir?
Aller out? Aller la!"
"I am the king of spades, dear maid,
and you can call me sire!"

He regales you with a tale
of how he led the brigade
and pillaged every village
with his trusty king of spades
and when he left the army
the main tale he would tell
was of a lovely little Linda,
a girl we all know well.

(chorus)

When he came back from Normandy
he searched for years in vain
for the lovely little Linda
who crowned him King Of Spades.
For 55 years he lived with his staid darling wife
and when she died he could finally tell the best lie of his life.

(chorus)

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from Dawning Of A New Day (2012), released November 25, 2012

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Dan Frechette California

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