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A dark Morricone-style spaghetti western dripping with reverb and poker metaphors, Bad Bet is what The Man with No Name would hear if he looked down the bar at Wesloh's Lady Luckless.

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Bad Bet

It's late and this ain't the first time
I've seen that look
You think I've got a losin' hand
You think I'm an open book
You're itchin' hard to try your luck
See where the night might lead
But that's a dead end road, just up and fold
Don't place your bet on me

Honey you ain't the first one
Damn sure won't be the last
No one knows the future
But they all know my past
You think you've got a winnin' hand
All you're missin' is a queen
But now I've told what you don't know
Don't place your bet on me

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'Cause I've torn up the Queen of Hearts
I've burned the Jack of Spades
Tossed a Joker more than once
I've folded on an ace
I'm sure as hell no Lady Luck
No place you wanna be
Don't look for love where there ain't none
Don't place your bet on me

I've stacked the deck once or twice
But I don't read and weep
Been accused of cheatin'
But I don't lose no sleep
I'll put on my poker face
And you'll think you're gonna win
But I'll double down
And bet the town
And you'll go all in

{chorus}

Bridge:
(Don't place your bet on me)
That's a bad idea, rotten odds, the stakes are real
Leave your heart out just to steal, you'll see
(Don't place your bet on me)
This here's a losin' game, with no one but yourself to blame
I'll take your money just the same and leave
Don't place your bet on me

{chorus}

Don't place your bet on me
Don't place your bet on me
Don't place your bet on me

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from Memoirs of a Honky Tonk Heart, released May 1, 2019

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Jessie Wesloh Missoula, montana

Raised in the pines of northwest Montana on Pabst Blue Ribbon, wood fires, and Willie Nelson records, Jessie Wesloh serves up unpretentious stories of lovers, liars, and losers, darkened by the rural realities of violence and substance abuse. Wesloh pulls influences from the Nashville Sound to the Bakersfield Sound to Outlaw Country, for unvarnished songs no one can say aren't "real country." ... more

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