Band: Woodbox Gang (www.woodboxgang.com)
Album: Wormwood
A great band from southern Illinois playing Trashcan Americana
Verse 1
Got a pretty smile, I can smile too. Smile so big my headâs in two.
You wanna be friends, you can be mine. Keep you happy in the sunshine.
Take my hand, itâs warm you can tell. Feel my heart, itâs hotter than hell
Iâve been there and I can take you too, I can make all your bad dreams come true.
(Slide Licks in )
(5 times) end on
VERSE 2
I like small towns and the people there. Easier money than welfare.
What does it take to get a handout? A sucker to trust you without a doubt.
But they need me and I need them, weâre all red-blooded working men.
Good or bad, where do I stand? Between the devil and a dollar is a confidence man.
CHORUS
Itâs a confidence game, Iâm a confidence man. Sure as I win, sure as I stand.
Tell you what I am, honest I ainât. Stab you in the back, smiling like a saint.
Confidence man in a confidence game, Iâll leave you with nothing but your shame.
Your mama warned about a confidence game, sheâs been taken in just the same â by a
confidence man.
VERSE 3
When the market dies like it always does everybodyâs pockets are lighter than they was.
Evrybodyâs mad everybodyâs pissed They canât believe that they were taken by a scam like this
Still they canât even understand, how they got swindled by an ordinary man
They pay the price, thatâs why I came, to make âem all losers in a confidence game.
CHORUS
SLIDE LICKS IN G
(5 Times) end on
The guitar solo is done on a dobro/resonator guitar, tuned to open G.