House of Cards
Steve Forbert

Oh, I guess I knew it would happen eventually
But I was not prepared for the word
No, I was not prepared for the word
No, they didn't give me no warning 'fore they told me the news
And I could not believe what I heard
No, I could not believe what I heard

Hey, well, it started to hit me later on in the night
I reacted by blowing my stack
I reacted by blowing my stack
Oh, feeling cheated and taunted and mad at the whole world at large
As I pissed on a black Cadillac
As I pissed on a black Cadillac

House of cards (and) don't it make ya wonder?
House of cards, (oh), don't it make ya wonder?

Oh, thousands of people gathered outside of his gate
Some came to sell souvenirs
Some came to sell souvenirs
Yes, souvenirs of the hillbilly singer who conquered the world
Now dead after forty-two years
Dead after forty-two years

House of cards (and) don't it make ya wonder?
House of cards, (oh), don't it make ya wonder?

Yes, and then came the stories all pushin' their way through the press
Stories of madness and pain
Stories of madness and pain
Oh, they'll do what they can to ravage, exploit, and destroy
His glory, his fame, and his name
His glory, his fame, and his name

House of cards (and) don't it make ya wonder?
House of cards, (oh), don't it make ya wonder?

Oh, the King undisputed, reclusive and high on a throne
The symbol and saint; he was youth
Oh, the symbol and saint; he was youth
Yes, and now that he's dead, and he's laid in his great, marble tomb
We're all left with a whole lotta truth
We're all left with a whole lotta truth

Oh, I guess a lotta sad people grew up on that hot, summer day
One more big dream swept away
One more big dream swept away
Yes, he's gone, and he's free, but, still, all of his music remains
I don't know what more I can say
And I don't know what more I can say except...

House of cards (and) don't it make ya wonder?
House of cards, (oh), don't it make ya wonder?
House of cards (and) don't it make ya wonder?
House of cards, (oh), don't it make ya wonder?
House of cards (and) don't it make ya wonder?
House of cards, (oh), don't it make ya wonder?


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Lyrics by Steve Forbert

  "Grand Central Station, March 18, 1977"   "January 23-30, 1978"   A Big Comeuppance   All I Asked Of You   All I Need To Do   Baby   Baby, Don't   Baby, I Know   Big City Cat   Big New World   Born Too Late   Breaking Through   Building Me A Fire   Can't We Get Together?   Dear Lord   Devil (Here She Comes Now)   Devil (Here She Comes Now) (Americana Version)   Don't Look Down, Pollyanna   Don't Stop   Dream, Dream   Evergreen Boy   Gambling Barroom Blues   Get That Vagabond Feeling   Goin' down to Laurel   Good Planets Are Hard to Find   Grand Central Station, March 18, 1977   Hang On Again Till The Sun Shines   Hope, Faith and Love   I Blinked Once   I Don't Know   I Don’t Know If You Know It   I Know What I Know   I Will Be There (When Your Train Comes in the Stat...   I Will Sing Your Praise   I'm in Love   I'm In Love With You   If I Want You Now   In Love With You   In the Jailhouse Now #1   It Doesn't Matter Much   It Isn't Gonna Be That Way   It Sure Was Better Back Then   It's Been a Long Time   January 23-30, 1978   Lay Down Your Weary Tune Again   Leaving Blues   Listen to the Mockingbird   Lonesome Cowboy Bill's Song   Make It All so Real   Man, I Miss That Girl   Metal Marie   Mexico   Middle Age   My Blue Eyed Jane   My Carolina Sunshine Girl   My Seaside Brown-Eyed Girl   New Working Day   No Use Running from the Blues   Now You Come Back   Oh, Camille   On the Streets of This Town   One Short Year Gone By   Open House   Over With You   Planet Earth Song   Poor Boy   Responsibility   Rollin’ Home To Someone You Love   Romeo's Tune   Sadly Sorta Like a Soap Opera   Samson and Delilah's Beauty Shop   Say Goodbye to Little Jo   Schoolgirl   Search Your Heart   Send In The Clowns   Settle Down   Shaky Ground   She's Living In a Dream World   Simply Must Move On   Simply Spalding Gray   Sing It Again, My Friend   Smoky Windows   Some Will Rake the Coals   Something Special   Song for Katrina   Song for the South   Steve Forbert's Midsummer Night's Toast   Steve Forbert's Moon River   Stolen Identity   Strange   Strange Names   Sugarcane Plum Fairy   Suspicion   Sweet Love That You Give (Sure Goes a Long, Long W...   That'll Be Alright   The American in Me   The Baghdad Dream   The Coo Coo Bird   The Oil Song   The Sweet Love That You Give   The Sweet Love That You Give (Sure Goes a Long, Lo...   The Sweet Love That You Give Me (Sure Goes a Long,...   The Weekend   Thinkin'   Thirty More Years   Thirty Thousand Men   This Land Is Your Land   Time Seemed So Free   Tonight I Feel So Far Away from Home   Wait   Welcome The Rolling Stones   What Kinda Guy?   Whatever, Man (Americana Version)   When I Get To California   When I Get To California (Americana Version)   When the Sun Shines   When You Walk in the Room   Who'll Watch The Sun Set?   Why Should I Be Lonely   Witch Blues   Witch Blues [Alternate Take]   Write Me A Raincheck   Ya Ya (Next to Me)   You Cannot Win 'Em All   You Cannot Win If You Do Not Play   You Cannot Win If You Do Not Play [Live][#]   You're Meant For Me   You’d See The Things That I See

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