Roving Gambler Lyrics - Unknown

1 I am a roving gambler I gambled all around

2 Whenever I meet with a deck of cards

3 I lay my money down

4 Lay my money down, lay my money down

5 I had not been in Washington many more weeks than three

6 I met up with a pretty little girl

7 She fell in love with me

8 Fell in love with me, fell in love with me

9 She took me in her parlour, she cooled me with her fan

10 She whispered low in her mother's ear

11 I love that gambling man

12 Love that gambling man, love that gambling man

13 Oh daughter oh dear daughter how can you treat me so?

14 Leave your dear old mother

15 And with a gambler go

16 With a gambler go, with a gambler go

17 My mother oh dear mother you can not understand

18 If you ever see me a coming back

19 I'll be with a gambling man

20 With a gambling man, with a gambling man

21 I left her here in El Paso and I wound up in Maine

22 I met up with a gambling man

23 Got in a poker game

24 Got in a poker game, got in a poker game

25 We put our money in the pot and dealt the cards around

26 I saw him deal from the bottom of the deck

27 And I shot that gambler down

28 Shot the gambler down, shot the gambler down

29 Well, now I'm in the jailhouse got a number for my name

30 The Warden said as he locked the door

31 You've gambled your last game

32 Gambled your last game, gambled your last game

33 I am a roving gambler I gambled all around

34 Whenever I meet with a deck of cards

35 I lay my money down

36 Lay my money down, lay my money down