Jimmie Rodgers – Those Gamblers Blues (Guitar)

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[Intro]
Fm
Ho, ho, hey hey

C        Fm
Hey ho hey
[Verse 1]
Ab
It was down in Big Kid's barroom

                                C7
On a corner beyond the square

Ab
Everybody drinking liquor

C7                             Fm
The regular crowd was there

Fm
I walked out on the sidewalk

                             C7
Began walking around

Fm
I looked everywhere I thought she'd be

C7                             Eb7
But my baby couldn't be found
[Verse 2]
Ab
I passed by the big infirmary

                                C7
I heard my sweetheart moan

Ab
Gee, it hurts me to see you here

C7                             Fm
'Cause you know, you used to be my own

Fm
I goes on out to see the doctor

                            C7
"Your gal is low," he said

Fm
I went back to see my baby

C7                             Eb7
Good God, she was lying there dead
[Verse 3]
Ab
Hey ho ho ho

                 C7
Ooh ooh ooh

Ab
Hey hey ho ho ho

C7          Fm
Hey ho hey

Fm
So I strolled on back to the barroom

                            C7
I drank good whiskey till night

Fm
'Cause it hurt me so to see my gal

C7                             Eb7
Lying there so cold, so white
[Verse 4]
Ab
She's gone, she's gone, God bless her

                                C7
She's mine wherever she may be

Ab
She has rambled this wide world over

C7                             Fm
But she never found a pal like me

Fm
Sixteen coal black horses

                            C7
All hitched up in line

Fm
In that pretty buggy she's riding

C7                             Fm
Goodbye, old gal of mine