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I am a roving gambler I gambled all around |
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Whenever I meet with a deck of cards |
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I lay my money down |
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Lay my money down, lay my money down |
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I had not been in Washington many more weeks than three |
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I met up with a pretty little girl |
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She fell in love with me |
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Fell in love with me, fell in love with me |
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She took me in her parlour, she cooled me with her fan |
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She whispered low in her mother's ear |
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I love that gambling man |
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Love that gambling man, love that gambling man |
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Oh daughter oh dear daughter how can you treat me so? |
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Leave your dear old mother |
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And with a gambler go |
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With a gambler go, with a gambler go |
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My mother oh dear mother you can not understand |
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If you ever see me a coming back |
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I'll be with a gambling man |
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With a gambling man, with a gambling man |
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I left her here in El Paso and I wound up in Maine |
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I met up with a gambling man |
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Got in a poker game |
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Got in a poker game, got in a poker game |
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We put our money in the pot and dealt the cards around |
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I saw him deal from the bottom of the deck |
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And I shot that gambler down |
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Shot the gambler down, shot the gambler down |
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Well, now I'm in the jailhouse got a number for my name |
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The Warden said as he locked the door |
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You've gambled your last game |
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Gambled your last game, gambled your last game |
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I am a roving gambler I gambled all around |
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Whenever I meet with a deck of cards |
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I lay my money down |
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Lay my money down, lay my money down |
