Kentucky Gambler

Kentucky Gambler easy guitar chords by Merle Haggard

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Fret 1

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  • G

  • C

  • D

  • G

  • C

  • D

    • Intro 1
    G
    C
    D
    G
    C
    G
    D

    G
    C
    G
    C
    G

    Verse 1
    G

    I wanted more from life,
    C

    than four kids and a wife
    G
    D
    G

    And a job in a dark Kentucky mine

    A twenty- acre farm,
    C

    with a shackey house and barn
    G
    D

    That's all I had and all I left behind
    G
    Verse 2


    But at gambling, I was lucky,
    C

    and so I left Kentucky
    G
    D
    G

    And left behind my woman and my kids

    Into the gay casinos,
    C

    in Nevada's town of Reno
    G
    D

    This Kentucky Gambler planned to

    get rich quick
    G
    Verse 3

    C

    (Kentucky gambler who's going to love
    D
    G

    your woman in Kentucky?)
    C
    G

    Yeah, and who's going to be the one to give
    D
    G

    her everything she needs?

    (Kentucky gambler,
    C
    D
    G

    who's going to raise your children in Kentucky?)
    C
    G

    And who's going to keep them fed and
    D

    keep them shoes on their feet?
    G
    Verse 4


    There at the gambler's paradise,
    C

    Lady luck was on my side
    G

    And this Kentucky gam
    D
    G

    bler played just right

    Yeah, I won at everything I played,
    C

    I really thought I had it made
    G
    D

    But I should have quit and gone

    on home that night
    G
    Verse 5


    But when you love the green- backed dollar,
    C

    sorrow's always bound to follow
    G

    And Reno's dreams fade
    D
    G

    into neon am ber

    And Lady Luck, she'll lead you on
    C

    She'll stay a while,

    and then she's gone
    G

    You better go on home,
    D

    Kentucky gambler
    G
    Verse 6


    But a gambler never seems to stop,
    C

    till he loses all he's got
    G
    D

    An d with a money- hungry fever,
    G

    I played on
    C
    G

    I played till I'd lost all I'd won,
    C

    I was right back where I'd started from
    G
    D

    Then I started wanting to go

    home
    G
    Verse 7

    C

    (Kentucky gambler, there ain't nobody,
    D
    G

    waiting in Kentucky)
    C

    When I ran out,
    D
    G

    somebody else walked in

    (Kentucky gambler,
    C
    D
    G

    looks like you ain't really very lucky)
    C
    G

    And it seems to me a gambler loses
    D
    G

    much more than he wins

    Much more than he wins
    G

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