Gambling Bar Room Blues Chords by Jimmie Rodgers

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_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ [Bb] Row, _
[Ebm] hey, hey, [Bb] the gambling [Ebm] barroom blew.
_ I went down to the corner just to meet my [Abm] gal.
[Bb] I found her [Ebm] standing on the side wall [Bb] talking to my pal.
[Ebm]
I strolled back to the barroom to get another drink [Abm] of gin.
[Bb] But the first thing I knew I was really rocking and drunk again.
I kept drinking gin and liquor till way up in the [Abm] night
when [Bb] my pal walked [Ebm] into the barroom.
[Ab] We had an awful [Ebm] fight.
I reached down for my razor and then we knocked [Abm] around.
[Bb] But when I pulled my [Ebm] pistol [Eb] I quickly smoked him [Ebm] down.
_ Hey, _ hey, oh, oh, [Abm] _ _ _
[Bb] _ oh, [Ebm] _ _ _ oh, oh, hey, oh.
I went down to see my baby and met her on the [Abm] way.
[Bb] I told her I'd [Ebm] have to leave her.
I told her I could not stay.
I started down to the station and stopped in at the [Abm] bar.
_ [Bb] There I met [Ebm] a policeman _ [Bb] riding in a motor [Ebm] car. _
We both drank lots of liquor.
That flat-footed cop [Abm] and I, [Bb] I thought he would never [Ebm] leave me.
[Bb] Lord, I [Ebm] thought I'd die.
My baby came in to join us and then it began [Abm] to rain.
[Bb] Then I [Ebm] had to hurry, hurry to catch that midnight train.
I laid my head in the barroom door.
I'll never get drunk [Abm] anymore.
[Bb] I've pawned my watch [Ebm] and my golden chain.
[Bb] I've pawned my baby's [Ebm] diamond ring.
Police, police, police, you're just as drunk [Abm] as me.
[Bb] I'll grab that old [Ebm] eight-wheeler [Bb] and make for the deep blue [Ebm] sea.
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