Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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D
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Em
My father
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D
was a gambler.
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Em
He threw horseshoes at the moon.
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G
He won a million dollars,
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C
he lost a million two.
They repossessed the house,
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C
they towed the Cadillac.
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Em
My daddy, he just smiled and said,
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D
one day I'll win it back.
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D
My daddy bought that Ca dillac
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F
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Em
off a Detroit motor line.
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G
And then he drove it through his hometown
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C
to prove he'd hit his prime
With hundred -dollar bills
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C
in a St. Chris money clip
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Em
And four kids staring proudly
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D
from that big ol' sinking ship
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G
Boys, it's mighty risky, ah
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G
Sometimes you hook the Milky Way
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Em
Or the outstretched hands of God
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C
In a dark and a dusty hole
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Em
And the sound of fallen horseshoes
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D
It pulls upon the soul
Em
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Throwin' horseshoes at the moon
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Em
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C
Am
Em
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D
Gm
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My daddy was a gambler,
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Em
but he had an honest heart
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G
He never did complain
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C
when the whole thing fell apart
He just swam a sea of alcohol
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C
till he hit the other side
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Em
How can you be a loser,
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D
if you never lose your pride?
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Boys it's mighty risky odds,
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G
sometimes you hook the milky way
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Em
or the outstretched hands of God.
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C
in the dark in a dusty hole
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Em
And the sound of fallen horseshoes,
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D
it bones upon the soul
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C
Throwing horseshoes at the moon
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D
G
Throwing horseshoes at the moon you
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