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Traditional |
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I am a roving gambler, I've gambled down in town |
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Whenever I meet with a deck of cards 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 not many more weeks than three |
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When I fell in love with a pretty little gal, 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 parlor, she cooled me with her fan |
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She whispered low in her mother's ear, "I love that gambling man. |
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Love that gamblin' man, love that gamblin' man |
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"Daughter, oh dear daughter, how can you treat me so? |
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To leave your dear old mother, and with a gambler go? |
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With a gambler go, with a gambler go |
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I've gambled down in Washington; I've gambled over in Spain |
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I'm goin' down to Georgia to gamble my last game. |
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Gamble my last game, gamble my last game |
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"Oh mother, oh dear mother, you know I love you well |
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But the love I have for this gambling man, no human tongue can tell. |
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No human tongue can tell, no human tongue can tell |
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"I hear that train a-coming, coming 'round the curve |
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A-whistling and a-blowing straining every nerve." |
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Strainin' every nerve, strainin' every nerve |
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"Mother, oh dear mother, I'll tell you if I can |
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If you ever see me comin' back, I'll be with the gambling man. |
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Be with the gambling man. |
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Be with the gambling man." |
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I am a roving gambler, I've gambled down in town |
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Whenever I meet with a deck of cards I lay my money down. |
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Lay my money down, lay my money down |
