Good To Be The King

	  		

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King Jesse in the house 

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Raise your glasses 

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Get your wallets out your pockets 

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All hail King 



  


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Jack Daniels and Jimmy Bean 

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These are a few of my favorite things 

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It's good to be the king 

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It's so good to be the king 

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Pockets fat, women thin 

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Hot stakes and I'm bound to win 

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It's good 

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Oh it's so good to be the king 


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Allow me by way of introduction  

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To say a little something bout these streets I grew up in 

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Hustlin, trying to scrape a dollar out of nothing 

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Take a little faith and make it substance 

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You see where I come from you can live forever on your knees 

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Begging alms, paying homages another man decrees 

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Or, well you can give the people what they need 

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Just enough to let em make believe they're free 

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So I wear a heart on my sleeve, keep a spade in my cuff 

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Let him without a shadow call my bluff 

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I was born an urchin told I wasn't worth the weight of my dirt 

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Now a king, crab-sidestepped the curse of my birth 

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Tell em, Jesse in the house, throw your dice on the table 

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Watch a leopard change its spots, lies become fables 

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Whatever it takes for these ladies in lace  

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To come walkin my way and they do, yeah they do so 

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White powder and stacks of green 

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These are a few of my favorite things 

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It's good to be the king  

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Oh it's so good to be the king 

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Hot dice, loaded decks 

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Texin? the checks of my loyal subjects 

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It's good, yes it's good 

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Oh it's so good to be the king 


        BIG JOE 

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Word had spread far and wide about King Jesse's success 

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And every young turk who'd ever felt the draw of a dark room on a hot summer night 

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Tried his hand at toppling the King 

         
        STACK 

King Jesse, you rollin' tonight? 


        KING JESSE 

Well who's asking, young man? 


        STACk 
        
       Em 
Well I guess you probably heard of me 

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Hi I'm Stack o Lee, no lyin' 

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Same roustabout that took out Billy Lines 

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Just for tryin to pull an ace I wasted him 

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My aim was nice, but you should see what I do with my dice 

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I heard that you're the king fish, I brought my hook and bait along 

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Roll the bones, great, place your bets on the heart eight 

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Here comes the heartache, Jesse, I come for crown and scepter 

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I come for kin and kingdom so you and your big protector 

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Better recognize I'm better than the average guys who darken up your door 
          
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Six foot two and I pack a forty four 

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No funny stuff, get me, we'll do this on the level Joe 

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Didn't come to start rumors I only came to settle em 

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If you're half as decent as your rep that so precedes you 

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You may put up a fight but it is I who will unseat you 

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Night night king, I demote you to a naive 

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I'm the best that ever rolled em and these skeletons are my slaves 


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How high? High as you like 

Well let's go 

Big Joe! 



        Chorus 

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Big Joe pulled a big number what number did Joe pull? 

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Big Joe pulled a big number what number did Joe pull? 





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Easy cash stacks from cocky beans? 

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These are a few of my favorite things 

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It's good to be the king 

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Oh it's so good to be the king 

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My crowd shoutin as they tend to do 

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And watching the look on your face when you lose 

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It's good 

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Oh it's so good to be the king 



  
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I'm Stack o, you're stacks look low you need a loan? 

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A little boost to your cash flow? I'm happy to oblige 

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Or maybe you need a back rub, you know how to scrap with lion cubs 

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But now you're rolling higher, the king of the pride 

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Down Simba, I call this one the rope-a-dope 
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The hustler ? 

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The Caesar in the senate on the eyes? 

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And I'm surprised you pitted my position 

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Cus the word around your kingdom is 
          
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You love coming from behind 


        Ooooohh 

Yeah, I said it 


        KING JESSE 

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Fine I'm a little Roman in my sentiments  

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But you? You're a peon in the presence of his imminence your impotence 

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And I forgive this incident your impudence 

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Your judgement blurred 

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Correct it, kiss the ring and have the last word 


        STACK 

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I might be down but I still swing a bigger better when there's pressure 

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fadfjadlf? kind of precious treasure 

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Last two rolls were pocket change, I'm hungry for some real cake 

Am 
What do you say your honor 

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One more, for some real stakes?