The Gambler Chords

Intro:
Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb
Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb
 
Bb Dm/A Gm    Bb/F      Eb              F
Slow    down, we've got time left to be lazy
        Bb        Dm/A         Gm     Bb/F Eb             F
All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes
          Bb    Dm/A Gm    Bb/F    Eb               F
We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden
        Eb               Dm                Cm  F
I don't care to beg your pardon, we should live until we
Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb
die
 
 
        Bb         Dm/A         Gm                 Dm-Eb-F
We were barely eighteen when we crossed collective hearts
       Eb               Dm            Cm                F
It was cold, but it got warm when you barely crossed my eye
             Bb          Dm/A     Gm    Bb/F   Eb           F
And then you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to dance
       Eb           Dm                Cm             F
I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight
 
 
  Eb                F                         Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F
I swear when I grow up I won't just buy you a rose
       Eb             F                           Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely
    Eb                           F
For even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
           Bb                Dm/A                Gm
I will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's our time
        Eb                          F
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your
Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb
side
Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb
 
           Bb          Dm/A       Gm                Dm-Eb-F
It was the winter of '86, all the fields had frozen over
      Eb          Dm      Cm            F
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
             Bb       Dm/A Gm Bb/F        Eb                   F
And now he's turned into a man, though he thinks just like his mother
     Eb                    Dm              Cm           F
He believes we're all just lovers, he sees hope in everyone
 
 
         Bb         Dm/A   Gm      Bb/F   Eb                 F
And even though she moved away, we always get calls from our daughter
        Eb                 Dm                 Cm                  F
She has eyes just like her father's, they are blue when skies are gray
              Bb      Dm/A  Gm   Bb/F    Eb                F
And just like him she never stops, never takes the day for granted
          Eb                Dm             Cm         F
Works for everything that's handed to her, never once complains
 
 
Eb               F      Bb   Dm/A Gm Bb/F
You think that I nearly lost you
         Eb               F         Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F
when the doctors tried to take you away
         Eb                F               Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F
Like the night you took my hand beside the fire
       Eb       F        Bb
thirty years ago to this day,
Eb                                F
You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
             Bb              Dm/A             Gm
But it's not time, you never quit in all your life
        Eb                          F                       Bb  Dm/A  Gm
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side
           Eb                             F
You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side
 
 
Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb
Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb
Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb
Bb Dm/A Gm Bb/F Eb F Bb Dm/A Bb
Eb Dm Cm Dm-Eb-F
Eb Dm C F
 
         Bb   Dm/A Gm  Bb/F      Eb             F
You come home from work, and you kiss me on the eye
              Eb                Dm             Cm                F
You curse the dog, you say that I should never feed them what is ours
      Bb       Dm/A   Gm    Bb/F      Eb               F
So we move out to the garden, look at everything we've grown
        Eb              Dm      Cm           Cm-Dm-Eb F                  Bb
And the kids are coming home so I'll set the table;     you can make the fire
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