Merle Haggard – Kentucky Gambler 2 (Guitar)

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I wanted more from life, than four kids and a wife

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And a job in a dark Kentucky mine.

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A twenty acre farm, a shackey house and barn

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That's all I had and all I left behind

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But at gambling, I was lucky, and so I left Kentucky

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And left behind my woman and my kids

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Into the gay casinos in the fattest town of Reno

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This Kentucky gambler planned to get rich quick 

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Kentucky gambler who's gonna love your woman in Kentucky

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And who's gonna be the one to give her everything she needs.

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Kentucky gambler, who's gonna raise your children in  Kentucky

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Yeah and who's going to keep them fed and keep them shoes on their feet

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There at the gambler's paradise, Lady Luck was on my side

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and this Kentucky gambler played just right

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Hey, I won at everything I  played - I really thought I had it made

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But I should have quit and gone on home that night

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But when you love the green backed dollar, sorrow's always bound to follow

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And Reno's dreams fade into neon amber

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And Lady Luck, she'll lead you on

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She'll stay a while, and then she's gone

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You better go on home, Kentucky gambler

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But a gambler never seems to stop, till he loses all he's got

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And with a money hungry fever, I played on

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I played till I'd lost all I'd won and I was right back where I'd started from.

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Then I started wanting to go home

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Kentucky gambler, there ain't nobody, waiting in Kentucky

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You ran out, somebody else walked in

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Kentucky gambler, looks like you ain't really very lucky

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Seems to me a gambler loses much more than he wins