Key: Bb major
Verse 1
Gb
Ab
Gb
Ab
I made a promise
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Gb
to myself
Ab
Someday I'd return to these shores
Db
Gb
The silver coastline white with waves,
Ab
the heather green on the moor
Fm
Ab
Db
Gb
For I have left a life behind,
Db
Ab
I lived as a gambling man
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Gb
Searching for that wild pie cart
Ab
to play a winning hand
Absus4
Ab
And I wandered into a
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Gb
smuggler's saloon
Ab
Shadows dancing on the wall
Db
Gb
At a table green we played our cart
Ab
And we drank from glasses tall
Db
And next to me a woman wept
Gb
Db
Ab
Her eyes watching fortune and fame
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Gb
And as I played my last pie card
Ab
But I could not leave the game
Db
Gb
Db
Ab
Db
Gb
Ab
Db
Gb
Lady Luck is a court mistress,
Ab
both passionate and proud
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Gb
I'm the fool who tries to find
Ab
Her face among the crowd
Db
Seeking her re flection,
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Db
I could never see her face
Ab
Db
Gb
Till I laid my last high guard
Ab
And fell into her embrace
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Gb
And now the game has ended at last
Ab
In the cold gray light of dawn
Dbm
Gb
The hands of time unties the blinds,
Ab
in the morning we are gone
Db
And the love we made is lingering
Gb
Db
Ab
like waves upon the sand
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Gb
And as I breathe the cool morning air,
Bbm
Gb
Ab
Gb
Ab
I hold a winning hand.
Absus4
Ab
Gb
Ab
Gb
Ab
Gb
Ab
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Ab
Go to needs! you
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