Chords for Townes Van Zandt - Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold (Live) (Official Audio)

_ [D#m] There [D#] was this, I got to tell you all this joke, there was this _ drunk walking down the
street and he walks up to this [A#m] cop and he says, man, somebody stole my car.
And the cop says, well, where was it?
And he says, it was right on the end of this key.
_ [B] _
The cop says, I don't know, man, why don't [D] you go down to the precinct house and report
it down there and they'll fill out all the proper forms, you know, [A#m] all that stuff.
The guy says, okay, and he starts to walk off and the cop says, before you get out of
town, you better zip up your fly.
The guy looks at him and says, oh man, they got my girl [D] too.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
Well, I played this, _ [B] I learned that from J.
Jeff Walker.
[Bm] _ [F#] _ _ _ I played this song about [A#] playing five card stud poker.
It's called [F#] Mr.
Mud and Mr.
Gold. _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ Well, the wicked king of clubs awoke.
[D]
It was to his queen he turned, [B] his lips were laughing as they spoke.
[F#m] His eyes like bullets [Bm] burned, the sun's upon a gambling day.
[D] His queen smiled low and blissfully, [C#] let's make some [B] wretched fool to pay.
[F#m] Plain it was, she did agree.
[Bm] He sent his deuce down into [D] diamond, his four to heart and his trade of spade.
[Em] Three kings with their legions [F#m] come and preparations soon were made.
[B] They voted club the day's [D] commander, give him an army face and number.
All [B] but the outlaw jack of [F#m] diamonds and the aces in [B] the sky.
_ _ [D] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ But he give his sevens first [D] instruction, spared me a game of stud.
[Em] Stakes unscarred, but [F#m] limitation between a man named gold and a man [B] named mud.
And club filled gold with greedy [D] vapors till his long green eyes did glow.
[B] Mud was left with the sighs and [F#] trembles watching his [F#m] hard earned money go.
[Bm] Flushes fell on gold like [D] water tins that paired and paired [B] again.
But the aces only flew through heaven [F#] and the diamond jack [F#m] called no man [Bm] friend.
The diamond queen saw mud's [D] ordeal, began to think of a long lost son,
[Em] fell to her knees with a mother's mercy, prayed to the [F#m] angels everyone.
[Bm] The diamond queen, she prayed and [D] prayed and the diamond angel filled [E] mud's hole.
And the wicked king of clubs himself [F#m] fell face down in front of gold.
[Bm] Now three kings come to club's [D] command, but the angels from the sky did [Em] ride.
Three kings up on the [F#] streets of gold, three [F#m] fireballs on a muddy side.
The club queen heard her husband's [D] call, but lord that queen of diamonds [Em] joy.
When the outlaw in the heavenly hall [F#m] turned out to be her wandering boy.
[B] Now mud he checked and gold bet all.
[D] And mud he raised and gold it [Em] called.
And that smile just melted off his face when [F#m] mud turned over that diamond ace.
[Bm] Now here's what this story's [D] told.
You feel like mud, you'll end up gold.
[Em] Feel like lost, you'll end up [F#m] found.
So me go lay them [Bm] razors down.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [G] _ _