Oh Mollie, Oh Mollie
It's for your sake alone
That I leave my old parents, my house, and my home
My love for you, it has caused me to roam
I'm a rabble rouser and Dixie's my home
Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds
I know you of old
You robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold
Oh whiskey, you villain
You've been my downfall
You kicked me, you cuffed me, and caused me to brawl
My foot's in a stirrup, a bridle's in my hand
I'm leaving sweet Mollie, the fairest in the land
Her parents, they don't like me
They say I'm too poor
They say I'm unworthy to enter her door
They see I drink whiskey, my money's my own
And them that don't like me can leave me alone
I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry
And when I get thirsty, I lay down and cry
It's beefsteak when I'm hungry, Rye Whiskey when I'm dry
Green backs when I'm hard up, and hell when I die
Rye Whiskey, Rye Whiskey, Rye Whiskey, I cry
If I don't get Rye Whiskey, I surely will die
Oh baby, oh baby, I've told you before
Do make me a pallet, I'll lie on the floor
I rambled and trampled this wide world around
Raising hell with the gang, that is where I am bound
It's with these gunslingers, dear Mollie, I'll roam
I'm a rabble rouser and Dixie's my home
If the ocean were whiskey, and I were a duck
I'd dive to the bottom and get one sweet sup
But the ocean ain't whiskey and I ain't no duck
So I'll play Jack of Diamonds and then we'll get drunk
Oh baby, oh baby, I've told you before
Do make me a pallet, I'll lie on the floor