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
