
Date of issue: 16.11.2008
Song language: English
Kentucky Gambler |
I wanted more from life, than four kids and a wife |
And a job in a dark Kentucky mine. |
A twenty acre farm, with a shackey house and barn |
Thats all I had and all I left behind |
But at gambling, I was lucky, and so I left Kentucky |
And left behind my woman and my kids |
Into the gay casinos, of Nevada’s town of Reno |
This Kentucky Gambler planned to get rich quick |
Kentucky gambler who’s going to love your woman in Kentucky |
Yeah — and who’s going to be the one to give her all she needs |
Kentucky gambler, who’s going to raise your children in Kentucky |
And who’s going to keep them fed and keep them shoes on their feet |
There at the gambler’s Paradise, Lady luck was on my side |
and this Kentucky gambler played just right |
Yeah I won at everything I played — I really thought I had it made |
But I should have quit and gone on home that night |
But when you love the green backed dollar, sorrow always bound to follow |
and Reno’s dreams fade into neon amber |
And Lady Luck, she’ll lead you on She’ll stay a while, and then she’s gone |
You better go on home, Kentucky gambler |
But a gambler never seems to stop, till he loses all he’s got |
and with a money — hungry fever, I played on I played till I’d lost all I’d won, I was right back where I’d started from |
Then I started wanting — to go home |
Kentucky gambler, there ain’t nobody, waiting in Kentucky |
When I ran out, somebody else walked in Kentucky gambler, looks like you ain’t really very lucky |
And it seems to me a gambler loses much more than he wins |
much more than he wins. |
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