The Gambler chords by
Marc Almond

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Key: F minor•

Verse 1
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G G 
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Fm Fm 
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On a dark night in a lost hour
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In a town built from neon and chrome
C C 
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Where las vegas seeks the desert
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In    an old broken down casino
Dbdim Dbdim 4
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There the gambler
slapped his money down
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Fm Fm 
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Dirty dollars one hundred or more
Placed his last bet on a poker game
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C C 
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Crossed his heart for the winning score
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Verse 2
But the players at the table
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Db Db 4
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Fm Fm 
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Two men   of the phantom creed
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Seemed to play with
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Dbdim Dbdim 4
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sombre purpose
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Than a reason and pure greed
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And the gambler  felt his back freeze
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Fm Fm 
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And fear brushed his ageing brow
For he'd seen those men
before in his dreams
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C C 
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Here they sat before him
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Fm Fm 
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now

Verse 3
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And the one smoothed back his black hair
With a comb slicked by
brylcream and grease
Flipped the cards with a flippancy
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Of a wily and slippery ease
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G G 
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With his sharp suit shade of lilac
On a shuffle he made the cards sing
Gold studs and menthol cigarettes
Rubies set in a skull ring

Verse 4
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Cm Cm 3
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And the other of the clergy
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Cm Cm 3
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With a colour and robe of pale ivory
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Cm Cm 3
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Silver grey at the temples
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And a smile that was stern and was
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kindly
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C C 
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Fm Fm 
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C C 
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Verse 5
Fm Fm 
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F F 
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Fm Fm 
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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Jack of hearts lead, wait for aces
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Cm Cm 3
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Became faces of family and friends
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Until the deck showed him a picture
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G G 
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Of     his life from beginning
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to en  d
Reverend life he flipped an ace
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Cm Cm 3
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And the gambler felt blood in his heart
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For he knew this was
the game of games
He would need all the reverend's
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C C 
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Fm Fm 
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heart

Verse 6
F F 
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Anger, lust and gluttony
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F F 
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Fm Fm 
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The gambler seems hit hard
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Fm Fm 
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Each failure and each feature
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Mapped out in the slippery cards
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G G 
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Greasy mr.d. flashed a
winning grin
And stood facing reverend life
The reverend paled as he
saw the score
The gambler felt pain as a knife
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His troubles,

Verse 7
Cm Cm 3
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tribulations
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Cm Cm 3
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Revelations and regrets
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Cm Cm 3
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A wife, a child, a fight to trial
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Cm Cm 3
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Turned by the hand of death
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Cm Cm 3
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And the gambler saw his hand stained
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Cm Cm 3
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With the blood of his family ties
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And with the yellow smile of mr.d.
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Cm Cm 3
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F F 
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In his mind he crumples
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an  d dies

Interlude 1

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And these

Verse 8
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two great men
from different worlds
Faced each other and shook
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of hands
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C C 
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The reverend shrugged "ah
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well     next        time"
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And departed for heaven's land

Verse 9
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And the flames leapt and
the soul screamed
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And the cards scattered round the room
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And life is always     a gamble
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Fm Fm 
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A game from the cradle to tomb

Verse 10
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And the flames leapt and
the soul screamed
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And the cards scattered round the room
And life is always a gamble
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A game from the cradle to tomb

Verse 11
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And the flames leapt and
the soul screamed
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And the cards scattered round the room
And life is always a gamble
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A game from the cradle to tomb