Smuggler’s Blues

There's trouble on the streets tonight I can feel it in my bones
I had a premonition that he should not go alone

I knew the gun was loaded but I didn't think he'd kill
Everything exploded and the blood began to spill

So baby here's your ticket put the suitcase in your hand
Here's a little money now do it just the way we planned
You be cool for twenty hours and I'll pay you twenty grand

I'm sorry it went down like this but someone had to lose
It's the nature of the business it's the smuggler's blues

Smuggler's blues

The sailors and pilots the soldiers and the law
The pay offs and the rip offs and the things nobody saw
No matter if it's heroin cocaine or hash
You've got to carry weapons cause you always carry cash

There's lots of shady characters lots of dirty deals
Every name's an alias in case somebody squeals
It's the lure of easy money it's got a very strong appeal
Perhaps you'd understand it better standin' in my shoes
It's the ultimate enticement it's the smuggler's blues

Smuggler's blues

You see it in the headlines you hear it every day
They say they're gonna stop it but it doesn't go away
They move it through Miami they sell it in L.A.
They hide it up in Telluride I mean it's here to stay

It's propping up the governments in Columbia and Peru
You ask any D.E.A. man he'll say There's nothin' we can do
From the office of the President right down to me and you
Me and you

It's a losing proposition but one you can't refuse
It's the politics of contraband it's the smuggler's blues

Smuggler's blues