FUN. LYRICS "The Gambler" NOTE: I figured this out with a piano, not a guitar. It should not make any difference, but I do not know if there is an easier way to play it with a capo. Those are the chords in standard tuning, if you want to play with a capo, you will have to transpose it by yourself. The notes connected with a dash are triplets, the others are played within normal beats. The notes in the bass line are optional, but they do create a scale downwards from Bb to F, which is a nice effect That should be all you need to know about the song, now play! Intro: Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Slow down, we've got time left to be lazy Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden Eb Dm Cm F I don't care to beg your pardon, we should live until we Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb die Bb Dm/A Gm Dm-Eb-F We were barely eighteen when we crossed collective hearts Eb Dm Cm F It was cold, but it got warm when you barely crossed my eye Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F And then you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to dance Eb Dm Cm F I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight Eb F Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F I swear when I grow up I won't just buy you a rose Eb F Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely Eb F For even if the sun stops waking up over the fields Bb Dm/A Gm I will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's our time Eb F So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb side Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb Bb Dm/A Gm Dm-Eb-F It was the winter of '86, all the fields had frozen over Eb Dm Cm F So we moved to Arizona to save our only son Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F And now he's turned into a man, though he thinks just like his mother Eb Dm Cm F He believes we're all just lovers, he sees hope in everyone Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F And even though she moved away, we always get calls from our daughter Eb Dm Cm F She has eyes just like her father's, they are blue when skies are gray Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F And just like him she never stops, never takes the day for granted Eb Dm Cm F Works for everything that's handed to her, never once complains Eb F Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F You think that I nearly lost you Eb F Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F when the doctors tried to take you away Eb F Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Like the night you took my hand beside the fire Eb F Bb thirty years ago to this day, Eb F You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time Bb Dm/A Gm But it's not time, you never quit in all your life Eb F Bb Dm/A Gm So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side Eb F You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb Eb Dm Cm Dm-Eb-F Eb Dm C F Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F You come home from work, and you kiss me on the eye Eb Dm Cm F You curse the dog, you say that I should never feed them what is ours Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F So we move out to the garden, look at everything we've grown Eb Dm Cm Cm-Dm-Eb F Bb And the kids are coming home so I'll set the table; you can make the fire
