The Gambler by fun.

Not sure if 100% correct, but it is definitely really close. Also this is my first 
tab and its 100% by ear. Enjoy.

Standard Tuning
Capo on 5

Chords Used: C G F Am


You can play chords in lieu of finger–picking.

  C     G     F       G     F     G     C
e|––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––|
B|––––––––––––––––––––––––0–––––1–––––0–––––––|
D|––––0–––––0–––––2–––––0–––––2–––––0–––––––0–|  x2
G|––2–––––0–––––3–––––0–––––3–––––0–––––––2–––|
A|3–––––2–––––0–––––––––––––––––––––––––3–––––|
E|––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––|


 C     G              F               G
Slow down, we've got time left to be lazy
         C                      G           F             G
All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes
           C            G           F                 G
We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden
         F                C                 G    F C  G  C G F C F C G  
I don't care to beg your pardon, we should live until we die

         C          G            F                  C
We were barely eighteen when we crossed collective hearts
        F                C             G
It was cold, but it got warm when you barely crossed my eye
              C                    G             F           C
And then you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to dance
        F          C                   G
I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight

   F                G                          C
I swear when I grow up I won't just buy you a rose
       F               G                           C
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely
     F           C               G
For even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
            C                 G                   Am
I will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's our time
         F                          G                        C G F C F C G
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side

            C         G            F                 C
It was the winter of '86, all the fields had frozen over
       F        C          G
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
              C            G               F                    C
And now he's turned into a man, though he thinks just like his mother
    F                       C               G
He believes we're all just lovers, he sees hope in everyone

          C                G              F                   C
And even though she moved away, we always get calls from our daughter
         F                  C                  G
She has eyes just like her father's, they are blue when skies are gray
              C              G            F                 C
And just like him she never stops, never takes the day for granted
           F                 C              G
Works for everything that's handed to her, never once complains

 F                G      C                 F                G        C
You think that I nearly lost you when the doctors tried to take you away
          F                 G              C  G         Am      G         C
Like the night you took my hand beside the fire thirty years ago to this day,
 F                  C            G
You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
              C               G                Am
But it's not time, you never quit in all your life
         F                          G                        C G  Am
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side
            F                             G                        C G F G F G C
You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side

     C              G             F              C
You come home from work, and you kiss me on the eye
              F                 C               G
You curse the dog, you say that I should never feed them what is ours
       C               G               F                C
So we move out to the garden, look at everything we've grown
         F               C       G                   F       G        C
And the kids are coming home so I'll set the table; you can make the fire