Now this town is full of guys
Who think they're mighty wise
Just because they know a thing or twoYou can see them everyday
Strolling up and down Broadway
Telling of the wonders they can doWell, there's conmen and there's boosters
Card sharks and crap shooters
They congregate around the MetropoleThey wear fancy ties and collars
But where they get their dollars
While they all got an ace in the holeSome of them write to the old folks for coin
Well, that's their old ace in the hole
Others have gals on the old Tenderloin
Well, that's their old ace in the holeThey'll tell you all the trips
That they are going to take
From 'Frisco up to that old North PoleNow their names would be mud
Like a old chump playing stud
If they lost that old ace in the holeNow some of them write to the old folks for coin
And lets their old ace in the hole
And others well, they have gals on the old Tenderloin
And that's their old ace in the holeWell, they'll tell you all the trips
That they are going to take
From 'Frisco up to that old North PoleNow their names would be mud
Like a chump playing stud
If they lost that old ace in the hole
If they lost that old ace in the hole