Testi Soundtracks :: W

[The Man]

Charlie went out to the gambling hall

And he started to play on the roulette wheel

With a quarter on the red and his head in his hands

As he watched and he waited till the ball came to rest



Old Charlie never moved, he just let his money ride

And the red won again, and again, and again

He won sixteen times before they found out he was dead

For the whole time, what a wonder, he was dead, but still a winner

Imagine the shock and the stunning loss of pride

For the house had been losing to a man who had died

There's gotta come a time when we all gotta go

The start is always fast but the ends always slow

[Swallow]

And the moral is? and the moral is?

And the moral is? and the moral is?

[The Man]

When miss Annie found out she put a gun to her head

It was loaded, sixteen bullets

She was all dressed in black, she had her necklace on

When she fired sixteen bullets



Her sons put her in a coffin then they put it in a hearse

It was drawn by sixteen horses

Then they all got on a barge and they drifted out to sea

To see a fallen angel, whose fall was over

A fallen angel, with a moustache



And there's gotta come a time when we've all gotta go

You start out always fast but the ends always slow

There's gotta come a time when we've all gotta go

You start out always fast but the ends always slow

[Swallow, Brat & Poor Baby]

And the moral is? and the moral is?

And the moral is? and the moral is?

[The Man]

It was their time to go so they went





They ask what the moral of the story was, he replies that it was their time

was up so they went. Poor baby is not satisfied with the mans reason and

again accuses him of just being a fella. He storms out of the barn.

The man explains to swallow that everyone has to die sometime, even her

mother. He tells her that things sometimes just happen. She tells him that is

what happened to you, people don't see how beautiful and sweet you are and

that she loves him.

The man asks her to kiss him goodnight. She tells him that she was almost

killed by a train but she was not scared because she knew he was with her in

her heart and that he loved her.

Swallow leaves and the man contemplates the regrets that he has had in life

while open ing the package that Swallow delivered.

It is a gun.

"You can say a prayer for every one, that there could ever be

Say a prayer for all of these and more, but there's still no prayer for me

Say a prayer for your purest daughter, toll a bell for your only son

There's no way out, and all my prayers are loaded in this gun"

The highway lowers to reveal Candy waiting for Amos to take her away from town.

Candy sings Off ramp exit to paradise...