Gambler's Blues chords by Bill Morrissey

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Verse 1
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Jack -O -Diamond
Jack -O -Diamond slipped
between two towns
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He said, hide me, boys,
till the season ends
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I've been sharecropping
for the Ace -King -Queen
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And toward the end of
the game turned me
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One game down and I'm bound to lose
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And I just can't shake
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these gambler's blues
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Miss Downtown got her hair all wet
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She got caught by the storm
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Now she's so upset
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And she drives herself by the kitchen sink
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And she quietly counts up
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everyone's drinks
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And she can't control
And she can't refuse
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This one last shelter
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from the gambler's blues
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All the gamblers blues
coming round the curve
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Leave you with nothing
but your broken nerves
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You listen to the fire as you shovel in coal
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Stick your head out the window,
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see the drive wheels roll
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St. Louis knows that he can't survive
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With a broken horn and a Rico 5
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Still he walks this far
with his head held high
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And he honks and hollers
till the well runs dry
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And the Jack of Diamonds
had to give him the news
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There ain't no  good notes
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in the gambler's blues
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That smoke fills the room
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cause the wood's too green
That's what you get
when you buy
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from the Ace King Queen
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And   there's not much light,
there's not much heat
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But you learn to like
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how it smells so sweet
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When you count your change,
here you count by twos
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But you'll never buy off
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these gambler's blues
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All the gambler's blues
come around the curve
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Leave you with nothing
but your broken nerves
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Listen to the fire as you
shovel in the coals
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Take your head out the window,
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see the dry blues roll
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Jack of diamonds
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jumps out from the tens
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He says, we'll never know
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how this story ends
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But you can tell old Bill
when he comes home
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That the ace king queen
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took Miss Downtown home
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Left him nothing but her old tattoos
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And a road map of these gambler's blues
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