(RAVENAL enters from the saloon, followed by MEN)

RAVENAL

The man who ventures with chance

Is the man who's adding the salt, romance,

To a world

That otherwise is dark and drear.

The sane conservative lot

Have their fate secure in a guarded spot

Of the world,

They're welcome to their drab career.



TENORS

It is all well enough to be grinning

While your winnings grow,

But when Fortune reverses her spinning,

Life is not a-glowing.



BASSES

It is easy to be grinning

While your stack is growing,

But when Fortune reverses her spinning

Life is not a-glowing.



ALL MEN

That is why we like to see

Someone who can be

Unconcerned and free

Like you.



RAVENAL

If I am losing today

I will take my loss and I'll pay

For I know that in time my luck will turn,

It's bound to turn.

Till good luck comes my way

I'll play along,

While there's a game on the highway

I'll stray along

With just the turn of a wheel

Or the flip of a card as my guide.

I let fate decide

If I walk or ride.

Why sit alone with your sorrow

And kill the day?

There may be sunshine tomorrow

To fill the day.

While I've a heart and a brain

And my ebony cane

I can borrow

Until the day when good luck comes my way.



MEN

Never venture, never gain;

Men of caution, it is plain.

Fortune will change like an April day,

So we will wait till good luck

Will come our way!



RAVENAL

Never venture, never gain;

Men of caution, it is plain,

Live in vain,

So I will wait till good luck

Will come my way!