• Song:

    Frankie Laine - The Moonlight Gambler

  • Artist:

    Misc Unsigned Bands

Moonlight Gambler:Frankie Laine.
#3 in 1956.
           (Capo 2nd fret.)

INTRO:(Spoken, ad lib.)
        C          Am7                   F          G7
You can gamble for match sticks, you can gamble for gold. 
    C             Am7      F    G7
The stakes may be heavy or small. 
       C           Am7         F        G7
But if you haven't gambled for love and lost, 
C           Am7        F   G7
you haven't gambled at all.

#1.
G7   C    Am7  Fm  G     C      F G
They call me a moonlight gambler.
     Eb          Cm7      G
I've gambled for love and lost.
       F6         F7          Gm7          Bbm7
When I gamble for love and it isn't in the cards,
C        A7                Dm7  G7
Oh, what heartaches it can cost.

#2.
G7     C     Am7   Fm  G     C      F G
Win or lose, I'm a moonlight gambler.
      Eb        Cm7            G
And a winner is what I long to be.
Em7 A7   D    Dmaj7 D   G         A7 Bm   A7 Bm Em7
So  I'll gam...ble  for love just as long as I  live,
F    G7  Em  Am7  F    G7        C
Till the day Lady Luck smiles at me.

#3.
    C7  F          Fm7
You can gamble for match sticks.
Dm7 G7  C  Dm7 G7  C
You can gamble for gold.
C7  F             Fm7   G7 C
The stakes may be heavy or small.
C7     F           Fm7     G7  C    Em  Am7
But if you haven't gambled for love and lost,
Ddim C   Am7     Dm7     G7 C
Then you haven't gambled at all.
C7     F           Fm7     G7  C    E7     Am
No, if you haven't gambled for love in the moonlight,
Ddim C           Em    Dm7 G7 C
Then you haven't gamb..led at all.

#4.
Em7 A7   D  Dmaj7 D   G     A7      G         Edim
So, I'll gamble   for love, just as long as I live,
F    G6  C   Em   F    G7        C
Till the day Lady Luck smiles on me.
G7   C    Am7    Fm  G     C      F G
They call me the moonlight gambler.
G7   C    Am7    Fm  G     C       F G C
They call me the moonlight gambler. 


A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
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