Key: E major•
Verse 1
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and a story I will tell
About the greatest gambler
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you all should know and well
His name was Will O' Connolly
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and he gambled all his life
And it's right, Willie, right, roll, roll
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Well, if you're a gamblin' now,
nobody really knows
He gambled in the White House
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and in the railroad yards
Wherever there was people,
there was Willie and his cards
He had the reputation
as the gamblinest man around
home
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And it's ride, Willie, ride, roll, Willie, roll
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Well, you're a gamblin' now,
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nobody really knows
Sailin' down to Mississippi,
to a town called New Orleans
They're still talkin' about that card game
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on that Jackson River, Queen
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I've come to win some money,
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gamblin' Willie says
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the whole damn boat was his
Willie, roll
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Well, he's over gamblin' now,
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nobody really knows
Up in the Rocky Mountains,
in a town called Crippled Creek
There was an all -night poker game,
lasted about a week
Nine hundred miners
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had laid their money down
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And it's ride, Willie, ride, roll, Willie, roll
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Well, you're a gamblin' now,
nobody really knows
But Willie had a heart of gold,
and this I know is true
He supported all his children
and all their mothers, too
He wore no rings or fancy things
like other gamblers wore
for old Willie O 'Rourke
Well, you're a gamblin' now,
nobody really knows
When you played your cards with Willie,
you never really knew
Whether he was bluffin'
or whether he was true
He won a fortune
from a man who folded in his chair
The man, left a diamond flush,
roll, Willie, roll
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Wherever you're a -gamblin' now,
nobody really knows
It was late one evening,
during a poker game
A man lost all his money,
said Willie was to blame
He shot poor Willie through the head,
which was a tragic fate
And Willie's cards fell on the floor,
Willie, roll
Wherever you're a -gamblin' now,
nobody really knows
So all you rovin' gamblers,
wherever you might be
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The moral of the story is very plain to see
before you have to stop
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For when you pull that dead man's hand,
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And it's ride, Willie, ride,
roll, Willie, roll
nobody really knows.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE A B F#m D#
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