Brian Hennessey

E                                 
Brian Hennessey sat back and let 
     A
the gypsy read his palm
         B                         
When he saw her eyes grow wide and 
           E
wild and dark
And she whispered through her 
                     A
toothless gums and clutched him by 
the arm
             B                   
She said, ''Boy, I fear I see the 
          E
devil's mark.''
E        B                       
Brian Hennessey just laughed and 
            E
pealed the ten-spot from his roll
'Cause he'd never ever known the 
          B
taste of fear
         E                    
But he wondered why the summer 
                  A
nights should suddenly turn cold
        B                          
As the gypsy's words come ringing 
       E
in his ear.

[Chorus]
E          A                     
''You can run, you can hide, 
      E
Brian Hennessey.'', she cried
''But you can't escape the fate 
                B
that's in your hand.
     E                          
And say how does it feel to have 
   A
dealt your final deal?
       B                           
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying
  E
 man.''

[Verse]
E                                 
Brian Hennessey walked through the
                A
 doors of the Dining Dog Saloon
            B                      
Where he stopped to have his 
            E
nightly glass of gin
And the one-eyed scar-faced stranger
             A
 a dealing blackjack in the gloom
             B                   
Winked his ghastly grey glass eye 
               E
and dealt him in.
E       B                        
Brian watched in fascination as 
      E
the stranger's fingers flew
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Why he'd never seen such cheatin' 
       B
done before
         E                         
And his hand closed round a handle 
        A
of his snub-nose 32
           B                       
When the gypsy's warning come to 
        E
him once more.

[Chorus]
E          A                     
''You can run, you can hide, 
      E
Brian Hennessey.'', she cried
''But you can't escape the fate 
                B
that's in your hand.
     E                          
And say how does it feel to have 
   A
dealt your final deal?
       B                           
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying
  E
 man.''

[Verse]
E                                 
Brian Hennessey just folded up his
   A
 cards and walked away
         B                       
Holding back the rage that burned 
      E
his soul
And he stopped to have some coffee 
         A
at the Mockingbird Cafe
            B                      
But that slender blue eyed waitress
          E
 was his goal.
       B                       
And a few words from his silver 
                            E
tongue soon turned her flighty head
She said, ''My husband's out of 
                    B
town, you need not fear.''
            E               
But as he pressed her to the 
                   A
softness of her flutty-feathered bed
         B                         
On her pillows he saw written 
        E
bright and clear.

[Chorus]
E            A              
Oh, you can run, you can hide, 
             E
daring letters clear and wide
Said you can't escape the fate 
                B
that's in your hand
     E                          
And say how does it feel to have 
   A
dealt your final deal
       B                           
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying
  E
 man.

[Verse]
E                                 
Brian Hennessey he stumbled down 
     A
the stairs into the street
          B                        
And from that day on he changed his
         E
 wicked life
And he never drunk or gambled and he
         A
 never dealt no doop
         B                  
And he never touched another 
            E
fellow's wife.
      B                         
And years later he met the gypsy 
                            E
when his days were almost done
He said, ''Ha, ha, I beat your curse
            B
 don't you know.''
     E                          
But when she saw the frightened, 
               A
trembling, withered wretch that he'd
 become
              B                    
She said, ''Brian, you died twenty 
       E
years ago.''

[Chorus/Outro]
               A                   
''Because you ran and you hid 
    E
that's exactly what you did
But you didn't escape the fate 
                B
that's in your hand.
And say how did it feel to have 
  A
dealt your final deal?
       B                           
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying
  E
 man...''