The Gambler chords by Marc Almond

SimplifiedEm · F# · Am · B · Cdim …

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Em
F#
Am
B
Cdim
C
E
Bm
C#dim

Verse 1
Em 
F# 
Em 
On a dark night in a lost hour
Am 
Em 
In a town built from neon and chrome
B 
Where las vegas seeks the desert
Am 
In  an old broken down casino
Cdim 
There the gambler
slapped his money down
B 
Em 
Dirty dollars one hundred or more
Placed his last bet on a poker game
Am 
B 
Crossed his heart for the winning score
Em 

Verse 2
But the players at the table
Am 
C 
Em 
Two men of the phantom creed
B 
Cdim 
Seemed to play with
B 
Cdim 
sombre purpose
Am 
Than a reason and pure greed
Cdim 
And the gambler felt his back freeze
B 
Em 
And fear brushed his ageing brow
For he'd seen those men
before in his dreams
Am 
B 
Here they sat before him
Em 
C 
Em 
now

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Verse 3
Em 
And the one smoothed back his black hair
With a comb slicked by
brylcream and grease
Flipped the cards with a flippancy
E 
Em 
Of a wily and slippery ease
E 
F# 
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
E 
Bm 
And the other of the clergy
E 
Bm 
With a colour and robe of pale ivory
E 
Bm 
Silver grey at the temples
E 
And a smile that was stern and was
B 
kindly
C 
B 
Em 
B 

Verse 5
Em 
E 
Em 
F# 
Bm 
Jack of hearts lead, wait for aces
Em 
Bm 
Became faces of family and friends
F# 
Until the deck showed him a picture
C#dim 
F# 
Of his life from beginning
Bm 
to en  d
Reverend life he flipped an ace
Em 
Bm 
And the gambler felt blood in his heart
F# 
For he knew this was
the game of games
He would need all the reverend's
Bm 
B 
Em 
heart

Verse 6
E 
Anger, lust and gluttony
Em 
E 
Em 
The gambler seems hit hard
E 
Em 
Each failure and each feature
E 
Mapped out in the slippery cards
Em 
F# 
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
E 
His troubles,

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

Interlude 1

And these

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

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

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

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