The Gambler chords by Fun.

Submitted by: Higoo

Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb

Bb Bb/A Gm
Slow down,
F     Eb        F
we’ve got time left to be lazy
    Bb    Bb/A     Gm F   Eb        F
All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes.
     Bb  Bb/A Gm  F   Eb        F
We’ve got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden
     Eb       Dm
I don’t care to beg your pardon,
      Cm  F
We should live
      Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
until we die.

    Bb     Bb/A      Gm          Dm Eb F
We were barely eighteen when we’d crossed collective hearts.
    Eb        Dm      Cm         F
It was cold, but it got warm when you’d barely crossed my eye.
       Bb      Bb/A  Gm
and then you turned, put out your hand,
  F  Eb      F
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 Bb/A Gm F
I swear when I grow up, I won’t just buy you a rose.
    Eb       F               Bb Bb/A Gm F
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely.
Eb           F
Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
       Bb        Bb/A      Gm
I will not leave, I will not leave ’till it’s our time.
     Eb             F            Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.

Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb


      Bb     Bb/A      Gm        Dm Eb F
It was the winter of ’86, and all the fields had frozen over.
    Eb    Dm    Cm      F
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
       Bb Bb/A Gm F
and now he’s turning to a man,
      Eb          F
although he thinks just like his mother,
   Eb          Dm       Cm     F

he believes we’re all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.


     Bb     Bb/A Gm
And even though she moved away,
  F     Eb       F
we always get calls from our daughter.
    Eb         Dm
She has eyes just like her father’s
     Cm         F
they are blue when skies are grey
       Bb    Bb/A  Gm  F
And just like him, she never stops,
    Eb        F
Never takes the day for granted,
Eb              Dm
works for everything that’s handed to her,
Cm       F
Never once complains.


Eb         F   Bb Bb/A Gm F
You think that I nearly lost you
     Eb        F     Bb Bb/A Gm F
When the doctors tried to take you away.
       Eb        F        Bb Bb/A Gm F
But like the night you took my hand beside the fire
    Eb    F
thirty years ago
     Bb
to this day
Eb                F
You swore you’d be here ’til we decide that it’s our time
        Bb         Bb/A      Gm
Well it’s not time, you’ve never quit in all your life.
     Eb             F           Bb Bb/A Gm
So just take my hand, you know that I’ll never leave your side.
      Eb              F           Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
You’re the love of my life, you know that I’ll never leave your side.

Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
Eb Dm Cm Dm Eb F
Eb Dm Cm F

     Bb    Bb/A Gm F
You come home from work
     Eb       F
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   Bb/A  Gm  F
and so we move all to the garden
    Eb        F
look at everything we’ve owned
    Eb       Dm
now the kids are coming home
  Cm       Dm Eb F
so I set the table
         Bb
You can make the fire.

THE END