The Everly Brother's version of the traditional folk song "Roving Gambler",
which appears on their second second album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (1958).

(Note: The guitar in the recording is tuned slightly sharp.)

[Intro]


[Verse 1]
  
I am a roving 

gambler, I've 

gambled down i

n town

Wherever I meet with a deck of cards I lay my money down
              
Lay my money d

        
own, lay my mo

    
ney down

[Verse 2]
  
I had not been

 in Washington

, many more we

eks than three

'Til I fell in love with a pretty little girl, she fell in love with me
              
Fell in love w

           
ith me, fell i

.         
n love with me

[Verse 3]
    
She took me in

 her parlour, 

she cooled me 

with her fan

She whispered low in her momma's ear, “I love that gambling man.
              
Love that gamb

            
lin' man, love

          
 that gamblin'

 
 man”

[Verse 4]

“Daughter, oh 

dear daughter,

 how can you t

reat me so?

To leave your dear old mother, and with a gambler go?
              
With a gambler

        
 go, with a ga

      
mbler go?”

[Verse 5]
     
I've gambled d

own in Washing

ton; I've gamb

led down in Sp

ain

I'm goin' down in Georgia to gamble my last game
              
Gamble my last

         
 game, gamble 

.       
my last game

[Verse 6]

“Mother, oh de

ar mother, you

 know I love y

ou well

But the love I have for the gambling man, no human tongue can tell
              
No human tongu

              
e can tell, no

        
 human tongue 

    
can tell

[Verse 7]
  
I hear that tr

ain a-coming, 

coming 'round 

the curve

A-whistling an

d a-blowing st

raining every 

nerve
              
Strainin' ever

            
y nerve, strai

       
nin' every ner

ve

[Verse 8]

“Mother, oh de

ar mother, I'l

l tell you if 

I can

If you ever see me comin' back, I'll be with the gambling man
              
Be with the ga

            
mbling man, be

          
 with the gamb

     
ling man”

[Verse 9]
  
I am a roving 

gambler, I've 

gambled down i

n town

Wherever I meet with a deck of cards I lay my money down
              
Lay my money d

        
own, lay my mo

    
ney down