The Gambler Chords

The Gambler by fun.
 
You can play the Intro chords in lieu of finger-picking. You can also play the intro instrumental instead of
the chord progressions at the ends of Verse 1 and both Choruses.
 
[Intro]
    C     G     F       G     F     G     C
e |---------------------0-----1-----0-----------|
B |-1-----3-----1-----------3-----1-----3-1-----|
G |-----0-----0-----2-----0-----2-----0-------0-|  x2
D |---2-----0-----3-----------3-------------2---|
A |-3-----2-----0-------2-----------2-----3-----|
E |---------------------------------------------|
 
 
[Verse 1]
 C     G              F               C
Slow down, we've got time left to be lazy
         C                      G           F             C
All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes
           C            G           F                 C
We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden
         F                C                 G    F C  G  C G F C F C G
I don't care to beg your pardon, we should live until we die
 
[Verse 2]
         C          G            F                  C
We were barely eighteen when we crossed collective hearts
        F                C             G
It was cold, but it got warm when you barely crossed my eye
              C                    G             F           C
And then you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to dance
        F          C                   G
I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight
 
[Chorus 1]
   F                G                          C
I swear when I grow up I won't just buy you a rose
       F               G                           C
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely
     F           C               G
For even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
            C                 G                   Am
I will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's our time       
         F                          G                        C G F C F C G
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side
 
[Verse 3]
            C         G            F                 C
It was the winter of '86, all the fields had frozen over
       F        C          G
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
              C            G               F                    C
And now he's turned into a man, though he thinks just like his mother
    F                       C               G
He believes we're all just lovers, he sees hope in everyone
 
[Verse 4]
          C                G              F                   C
And even though she moved away, we always get calls from our daughter
         F                  C                  G
She has eyes just like her father's, they are blue when skies are gray
              C              G            F                 C
And just like him she never stops, never takes the day for granted
           F                 C              G
Works for everything that's handed to her, never once complains
 
[Chorus 2]
 F                G      C                 F                G        C
You think that I nearly lost you when the doctors tried to take you away
          F                 G              C  G         Am      G         C
Like the night you took my hand beside the fire thirty years ago to this day,
 F                  C            G
You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
              C               G                Am
But it's not time, you never quit in all your life
         F                          G                        C G  Am
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side
            F                             G                        C G F G F G C
You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side
 
[Verse 5]
     C              G             F              C
You come home from work, and you kiss me on the eye
              F                 C               G
You curse the dog, you say that I should never feed them what is ours
       C               G               F                C
So we move out to the garden, look at everything we've grown
         F               C       G                   F       G        C
And the kids are coming home so I'll set the table; you can make the fire
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