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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Bb
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Bb
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F
Slow down, we've got time left to be lazy
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F
All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Bb
die
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F
I swear when I grow up I won't just buy you a rose
Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Bb
side
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Bb
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/f/fun/the_gambler_crd_ver_4.html ]
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F
You think that I nearly lost you
Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F
when the doctors tried to take you away
Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm
But it's not time, you never quit in all your life
Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Bb
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Bb
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Bb
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] Bb
Eb Dm Cm Dm-Eb-F
Eb Dm C F
Bb [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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 [ch]Dm/A[/ch] 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
