The Gambler Chords by Fun

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Slow _ down, [Eb] we've got time left to [F] be lazy
[Bb] All the kids are bloom from babies [Eb] into flowers in [F] our eyes
[Bb] We've got fifty good years left [Eb] to spend out [F] in the garden
[Eb] I don't care to [Dm] bake your pot and we [Cm] should live _ _
[F] _ _ until [Bb] we die _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] We were barely [F] eighteen [Bb] when we crossed collective hearts
[Eb] It was cold but it [Dm] got warm [Cm] when you barely [F] crossed my eye
[Bb] Then you tumbled out your hand [Eb] and you asked [Bb] me to dance
[Eb] I knew nothing [Dm] of romance but [Cm] it was love at [F] second sight
[Eb] I swear when I grow [F] up I'll just [Bb] buy a rose
_ [G] _
[Eb] I will buy the flower [F] shop and you will never [Bb] be lonely
_ [Eb] Even if the sun stops [F] waking up over the fields
I will [Bb] not leave, I [D] will not leave till [Gm] it's all time
[Eb] So just take my hand, you [F] know that I will never leave [Bb] your _ side
La [Eb] la la la [Bb] la la la la la la la _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] It was the winter of [F] eighty-six, [Eb] all the fields had frozen over
So we moved to [Dm] Arizona [Cm] to save our [F] only son
And [Bb] now he's turning to a man, [Eb] though he thinks just [Bb] like his mother
He [Eb] believes we're [Dm] all just lovers, [Cm] he sees hope in [F] everyone
And [Bb] even though she moved away we [Eb] always get calls [Bb] from our daughter
[Eb] She has eyes just [Dm] like a father's, [Cm] they are blue and [F] skies are gray
And [Bb] just like him she never stops, [Eb] never takes the [Bb] day for granted
[Eb] Works for [Dm] everything, mishandled to [Cm] her, never [F] once complained
[Eb] And you think that [F] I _ nearly [Bb] lost [G] you [Eb] when the doctors tried [F] to take _ [Bb] you away
[Gm] _ [Eb] Like the night you took my [F] hand beside [Bb] a fire _
[Eb] Thirty years ago _ [F] _ _ to [Bb] this day
_ _ [Eb] You swore you'd be here till [F] we decide that it's our time
But it's [Bb] not time, you [D] never quit in [Gm] all your life
[Eb] So just take my hand, you [F] know that I will never leave [Bb] your side
[D] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [Eb] You're the love of my life, you [F] know that I will never leave [Bb] your side
La _ _
[Eb] la [Bb] la la la la la la la la [F] la la, la la la [Bb] la la _ _ _ _ _
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[Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Dm] _ _
[Cm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Dm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] la la
_ You [Bb] come home from work [Eb] and you kiss me [Bb] on the eye
You [Eb] curse the dog, you [Dm] say that I should [C] never feed them
[F] What is us, and [Bb] so we move out to the garden
[Eb] Look at [Bb] everything we've grown, [Eb] and the kids are coming home
[Cm] So I set the table, [F] _ _ you can [Bb] light the fire _
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