| Song | Three Armed, Poker-Playin' River Rat |
| Artist | The Everly Brothers |
| Album | Stories We Could Tell |
| In the summertime in 1861 | |
| And I was livin' near to Cairo town | |
| Only 20 years old when I stepped aboard the River Queen | |
| Well a man walked up in a shiny blue suit | |
| He said “Son you wanna play some cards?” | |
| It was the three-armed poker playin' river rat from New Orleans | |
| Well we sat down to play a little game of Black Jack | |
| And the folks how they gathered round | |
| And then he started to deal so fast my head commenced to spin | |
| In one hand he had a drink | |
| In one hand he had a smoke | |
| In one hand he had a royal flush | |
| Dirty three-armed poker playin' river rat from New Orleans | |
| La la la, La la la na | |
| La la la, La la la na | |
| You know I played ‘til I was broke | |
| Then I upped and walked away | |
| To have a talk with a gal I'd found | |
| For to get some sympathy for way the stranger treated me | |
| Well he walked up as bold as brass | |
| Put two arms around her waist | |
| And with the other hand he knocked me down | |
| I hate the three-armed poker playin' river rat from New Orleans | |
| La la la, La la la na | |
| And now morning has come to rolling River Queen | |
| Where the gamblin' man slept last night | |
| Folks say he fell overboard, and was washed out to sea | |
| And here I'm sitting here in a shiny blue suit | |
| Just a-grinnin' like a crazy fool | |
| Kinda wonderin' what to do with the other sleeve | |
| I hate that three-armed poker playin' river rat from New Orleans |
| In the summertime in 1861 | |
| And I was livin' near to Cairo town | |
| Only 20 years old when I stepped aboard the River Queen | |
| Well a man walked up in a shiny blue suit | |
| He said " Son you wanna play some cards?" | |
| It was the threearmed poker playin' river rat from New Orleans | |
| Well we sat down to play a little game of Black Jack | |
| And the folks how they gathered round | |
| And then he started to deal so fast my head commenced to spin | |
| In one hand he had a drink | |
| In one hand he had a smoke | |
| In one hand he had a royal flush | |
| Dirty threearmed poker playin' river rat from New Orleans | |
| La la la, La la la na | |
| La la la, La la la na | |
| You know I played ' til I was broke | |
| Then I upped and walked away | |
| To have a talk with a gal I' d found | |
| For to get some sympathy for way the stranger treated me | |
| Well he walked up as bold as brass | |
| Put two arms around her waist | |
| And with the other hand he knocked me down | |
| I hate the threearmed poker playin' river rat from New Orleans | |
| La la la, La la la na | |
| And now morning has come to rolling River Queen | |
| Where the gamblin' man slept last night | |
| Folks say he fell overboard, and was washed out to sea | |
| And here I' m sitting here in a shiny blue suit | |
| Just agrinnin' like a crazy fool | |
| Kinda wonderin' what to do with the other sleeve | |
| I hate that threearmed poker playin' river rat from New Orleans |