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Time, Gentlemen Please

from One More Roll of the Dice by The Rin Tins

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    Our brand-new full length album and 2nd release, launch on the 1st November 2014. A non-stop party album from beginning to end with pounding oompa rhythms, dark folk lyrics and deep jazz swing. A thoroughbred Bristolian product!

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A man who had everything - wealth, success - looses it all, resting on his laurels, time just ebbed away and all he had worked for was gone. Now he tells his story in a bar, and all he has is the booze in his bottle. But when the bar closes, Time takes that away too.

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Time, Gentlemen Please
Vs 1
The slow decay of time makes fools of us all
Confident and happy now? Just wait for what’s in stall
Fate’s a cruel mistress, and we are but her slaves
As time marches us to our soon forgotten graves

Vs 2
I used to be somebody, I used to stand tall
Politicians and businessmen, I fought them all
Fine wine fell from the heavens, red carpets I have trod
The opinion of many was I’d been touched by God

Pre ch:

A fortune in wisdom won’t buy you fine linen
A lifetime of struggle with just scars for your trouble
Once you’ve climbed the mountain and drunk from the fountain,
You don’t expect to have to climb again,
No, you don’t expect to have to climb again

Piano solo

Vs 3
But once you’re on high, it’s a long way to fall
It all just slipped away in no time at all
No one had told me that I had built on sand
It’s a long way to fall with no where soft to land

Ch

And I’ll have my vengeance, I’ll make them pay
I’ll take back what’s mine, that’s the plan anyway
I’m at the point where bitterness and exhaustion meet
As I hear the call – “Time, gentlemen please!”

Vs 4
If the devil makes work for idle hands
Tell him I’m ready and I ain’t got no plans
Ignorance is bliss, or so I’ve heard
If knowledge is power, is power just a word?

Pre ch:

A fortune in wisdom won’t buy you fine linen
A lifetime of struggle with just scars for your trouble
Once you’ve climbed the mountain and drunk from the fountain,
You don’t expect to have to climb again,
No, you don’t expect to have to climb again

Ch
And I’ll have my vengeance, I’ll make them pay
I’ll take back what’s mine, that’s the plan anyway
I’m at the point where bitterness and exhaustion meet
As I hear the call – “Time, gentlemen please!”

Trumpet Solo

Rpt Ch

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from One More Roll of the Dice, released November 1, 2014

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The Rin Tins Bristol, UK

Keep them dancing.
That’s the ethos that The Rin Tins have kept since their inception in early 2011 and since then the sextet have strutted from one stage to another playing high octane gypsy swing to the party hard masses.
With music that combines 5 part harmonies with swing jazz rhythms and pounding oompa beats, for 7 years they've been filling dance floors & festival tents across the UK. ... more

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