Original true story from when I did tobacco picking in Mareeba in Far North Queensland. We would all get paid and head into town to go to the Dunlop Hotel. There was a short pool hustler who would turn up during picking season and play anyone a game of pool for $1,000. I never saw him lose. He had two large black men as bodyguards. He often walked out of the pub with thousands of dollars he had won. Original song and music video by Gary Crockett.
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00:00In a dusty town called Mariba, there's a tale to be told
00:07At the Dunlop Hotel, where the nights never grow old
00:12A small man with a queue, under dim barroom light
00:16He's the pool hustler, taking on all comers tonight
00:20Two large black men, his shadows of might
00:24They stand by his side, keeping things tight
00:28Tobacco pickers gather, paychecks clutched in hand
00:32Ready to spend their hard-earned money in this gambling land
00:36Rolling balls on war, now I felt the stakes sky high
00:40A thousand dollars a game, no room for a lie
00:44Cold fears flow freely as pets step tall
00:48In the Dunlop Hotel, where the money do fall
00:52From the first break to the last, the tension runs thick
00:57Shots fall in silence, each one clean and slick
01:01His eyes fixed, steady as stone
01:05His pool hustler's realm, his territory is known
01:09From the first break to the last, the tension runs thick
01:20Shots fall in silence, each one clean and slick
01:25His eyes fixed, steady as stone
01:29This pool hustler's realm, his territory is known
01:33The figures cheer loud as the clock strikes ten
01:37Some hopeful song weary, but I'll try in again
01:41The small man just smiles, with cards close to his chest
01:46At the Dunlop Hotel, he's proven he's the best
01:50Rolling balls on war, now I felt the stakes sky high
01:54A thousand dollars a game, no room for a lie
01:59Cold fears flow freely as pets step tall
02:03In the Dunlop Hotel, in the Dunlop Hotel, where the money do fall
02:08Golden balls all worn out
02:16Felt the stakes sky high
02:18A thousand dollars a game
02:20No room for a lie
02:22Cold beers flow freely
02:24As pets stacked tall
02:26In the Dunlop Hotel
02:28Where the mighty do fall
02:30The mighty do fall
03:00The mighty alpha
03:04Wedding powers
03:08Many people
03:08Why a beast
03:10At the bass
03:13Through the beat
03:13And now
03:14The بالbole
03:15Off tune
03:16In the Dunlop Hotel
03:17Our brothers
03:18After the rain
03:19Concepción
03:20Weoks
03:21A true
03:24A true
03:26Boo