Pinball Machine - The Fall

Written by：Lonnie Irving

I'm an old road hog

I drove a big truck

Shot the pinball machine

But it brought me bad luck

If oceans was whiskey

And I was a dove

I'd dive into it

And never come up

I wish they'd outlaw them old pinball machines

Many weeks they have caused me to live on sardines

Last time I called my wife on the phone

The first thing she said was John can you come home

I got a lot of lodgers and they've got to go

I said I'll see you when I get back

From the depot

She said John you know

I love you

I wish you wouldn't go

Send your babies some money

They're hungry and cold

The last thing she said and then she hung up

Was john you

Gave up my loving to drive an old truck

I made my trip

Up to the depot

I was gone two months

'cause I shot up my dough

When I got home my family was gone

The best friend I had rung my telephone

He said John I guess you wonder 'bout your babies and wife

Pneumonia got your babies and your wife took her life

I've lost all my friends can't sleep for bad dreams

I dream about a old truck

And a pinball machine

I never will forget

The last words

That old man said

Oh lord

If I could live my life over

And then he fell dead

The victim of an old truck

He was a clean cut young man

At the age of nineteen

But now he's in his grave

The victim of an old truck

And a pinball

Machine