David Allan Coe:
I was just warming up to this long-legged girl,
With intentions to please.

Karen Brooks:
My blood started rushin',
As he laid his hand on my knee.

Coe:
By the look in her eyes,
I thought she'd be easy.
As she smiled and told me her name,
Then she said,

Brooks:
I've been here before,
And I know the rules to this game.
I've tried to be cunning.

Coe:
I've tried to act naturally mean.

Brooks:
You gotta take what fate deals you.

Coe:
Maybe this time she's dealt me a queen.

Both:
And if you play your cards right,
You'll be with me tonight.
And in the morning you'll still be there.
Play 'em wrong and you'll be sitting,
Across from a cold, empty chair.

Short instrumental break.

Brooks:
I sure hope you've got what I need,
So I don't have to look anymore.

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I ain't no king, girl.

Brooks:
Well, I've held some jokers before!

Both:
As long as we are able,
To lay our cards on the table,
There's no need to shuffle around.
We know how we feel, let's go on and deal.
This looks like the best game in town.

We know how we feel, let's go on and deal.
This looks like the best game in town.

The following lines appear on the liner notes as an intro to this song, but
are not recorded on the track from the double album:

You cut my heart like the cards on the table.
You know the game, do you know the rules?
I'd let you win if I were able.
But how can you win when it's love you'll lose.

THE BEST GAME IN TOWN1
Written by: David Allan Coe, Shel Silverstein & Karen Brooks
Performed by: David Allan Coe and Karen Brooks
Appears on: Invictus (Means) Unconquered-1981 & Invictus (Means) Unconquered/
Tennessee Whiskey (Double CD)-19952.

1From the liner notes, Coe writes, "Dedication: Karen Brooks sings lines
that no other woman before her has had the nerve to sing, much less write
Karen wrote a song that Roseanne Cash recorded called, 'I Could Never Do
Nothing Right.'3 However, Roseanne left a verse out of the song which has
one of the best lines I've ever heard."

2Transcribed from the track on this album.

3The actual name of this song is, "Couldn't Do Nothing Right," written by Karen Brooks
and Gary P. Nunn.