Chords for RovingGambler - Ramblin' Jack Elliot

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_ _ _ _ _ I'm a roving _ gambler and a gambler down in town
_ _ _ Never I meet [C#m] with a deck of [F#m] cards.
I'll lay [E] my money down _ _ _ _
[B] Boys lay my [E] money down _ _ _
_ [B] _ [E] _ _ _ I've gambled up in Washington
_ _ _ Gambled down in Maine.
I'm on my [C#] way to Georgia to knock down my last game
_ _ _ [B] Boys knocked down my last game
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_ _ Well, I had not been in Washington
_ _ _ Many more weeks and three [D#] fell in [C#m] love with a pretty little girl and fell [E] in love with me _ _
_ And [B] she fell in love with me _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ She took me in her parlor she cooed me with her fans [C#m] whispered low in a mama's ear.
[B] I love this gambling [E] man _ _
_ _ _ My
Love this gambling
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ daughter my dear daughter, how can you treat me so to leave you [C#] for oh [F#m] mama and with this gambler go _ _ _
[B] And with this [E] gambler go _ _ _
[B] _ [E] _ _ _ _ Mama my dear mama, you know, I love you.
Well love I hold for gambling [A] man.
No human tongue [E] can tell _ _ _ _
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_ I'd never marry a farmer is [E] always in the rain.
I'd rather marry a [F#m] gambling man with a big old watching chain
_ _ Ma big old [E] watching chain
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_ _ And I'd never marry a railroad man reason I'll tell you why never did [B] see a railroad [A] man.
I wouldn't tell his [E] wife a lie
_ Ma wouldn't tell his wife a lie
Never _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ did see a railroad man.
I wouldn't tell his wife a lie
I hear the train a-coming
_ _ _ Coming around the curve whistling [C#] and a-blowing and a strain in [E] every nerve
_ _ Ma [B] strain in [E] every nerve
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[E] It's a goodbye.
Goodbye.
Mama.
Tell you if I can you ever [C#m] see me coming home [F#m] again.
It'll be with a gambling man _
_ _ _ _ Ma [B] be with a gambling man _ _ _ _ _
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