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[ar:Merle Haggard]
[al:The Very Best Of Merle Haggard]
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[00:00.00]Kentucky Gambler - Merle Haggard & The Strangers
[00:13.23]I wanted more from life
[00:15.50]Than four kids and a wife
[00:17.64]And a job in a dark kentucky mine
[00:22.85]A twenty acre farm
[00:25.08]With a shackey house and barn
[00:27.45]Thats all I had and all I left behind
[00:32.38]But at gambling I was lucky
[00:34.68]And so I left kentucky
[00:37.15]And left behind my woman and my kids
[00:41.98]Into the gay casinos Nevada's town of Reno
[00:46.46]This kentucky Gambler planned to get rich quick
[00:51.64]Kentucky gambler who's going to love
[00:53.93]Your woman in kentucky
[00:55.79]Yeah and who's going to be the
[00:57.78]One to give her everything she needs
[01:02.50]Kentucky gambler who's going to raise
[01:04.92]Your children in kentucky
[01:07.38]And who's going to keep them fed
[01:09.20]Keep them shoes on their feet
[01:13.23]There at the gambler's Paradise
[01:15.90]Lady Luck was on my side
[01:18.15]And this kentucky gambler played just right
[01:22.80]Yeah I won at everything I played
[01:25.32]I really thought I had it made
[01:27.60]But I should quit
[01:28.70]And gone on home that night
[01:32.41]But when you love
[01:33.76]The green backed dollar sorrow always bound to follow
[01:37.41]And Reno's dreams fade into neon amber
[01:41.99]And Lady Luck she'll lead you on
[01:44.30]She'll stay a while and then she's gone
[01:46.74]You better go on home kentucky gambler
[01:51.46]But a gambler never seems
[01:52.60]To stop
[01:54.43]Till he loses all he's got
[01:56.89]Wth a money hungry fever I played on
[02:01.01]I played till I'd lost all
[02:02.62]Won't I was right back where I'd started from
[02:05.79]Then I started wanting to go home
[02:10.57]Kentucky gambler there ain't nobody waiting in kentucky
[02:15.24]When I ran out somebody else walked in
[02:20.21]Kentucky gambler looks like you ain't really very lucky
[02:24.83]And it seems to me a gambler loses much
[02:27.68]More than he wins
[02:31.24]Much more than he wins