Checkers and Chess

I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess

They make the big moves and make me a little less

Even when I win, beat the pants off of the best

I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess

I learned all the rules to their game

Fancy the way I play 'em when I lose 'em just the same

Nothing's fair in this world of blind chance

A rich man steals the money, the poor man takes the blame

I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess

They make the big moves and make me a little less

Even when I win, beat the pants off of the best

I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess

The day we're born, we're all bow so

Some cut from the cloth straight from the king's robe

The rest of us can't even be pawns

But we wear soldiers' uniforms, to die for their cause

I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess

They make the big moves and make me a little less

Even when I win, beat the pants off of the best

I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess

I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess