Rambling, Gambling Willie-Bob Dylan

[ti:Rambling, Gambling Willie] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare And Unreleased) 1961-1991] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rambling, Gambling Willie - Bob Dylan [00:05.28]Come around you roving [00:06.37]Gamblers and a story I will tell [00:09.52]About the greatest gambler [00:10.96]You all should know him well [00:13.72]His name was Will O' Conley [00:15.15]And he gambled all his life [00:17.68]He's had twenty-seven children [00:19.45]Yet he's never had a wife [00:21.81]And it's ride Willie ride [00:24.37]Roll Willie roll [00:26.22]Wherever you are gambling now [00:28.41]Nobody knows [00:29.24] [00:33.37]Well he gambled in the [00:34.65]White House and in the railroad yards [00:37.74]Wherever there was people [00:39.53]There was Willie and his cards [00:41.83]He had the reputation [00:43.51]As the gamblingest man around [00:45.24] [00:46.17]Wives would keep their husbands home [00:48.01]When Willie came to town [00:49.95]And it's ride Willie ride [00:51.28] [00:52.47]Roll Willie roll [00:54.18]Wherever you are gambling now [00:56.17]Nobody knows [00:59.89] [01:01.04]Sailing down the Mississippi to a town [01:03.88]Called New Orleans [01:04.99]They're still talking about their card [01:06.88]Game on that Jackson River Queen [01:09.36]"I've come to win some money " Gambling Willie says [01:13.24]When the game finally ended up [01:15.07]The whole darn boat was his [01:17.22]And it's ride Willie ride [01:19.87]Roll Willie roll [01:21.61]Wherever you are gambling now [01:23.74]Nobody really knows [01:28.56]Up in the rocky mountains in a town [01:31.28]Called Cripple Creek [01:32.75]There was an all-night poker game [01:34.76]Lasted about a week [01:36.78]Nine hundred miners had laid their money down [01:40.53]When Willie finally left the room [01:42.65]He owned the whole darn town [01:44.09]And it's ride Willie ride [01:46.95]Roll Willie roll [01:47.94] [01:48.46]Wherever you are gambling now [01:50.72]Nobody knows [01:52.45] [02:18.01]But Willie had a heart of gold and [02:20.00]This I know is true [02:21.72]He supported all his children and [02:23.93]All their mothers too [02:25.88]He wore no rings or fancy things [02:27.62]Like other gamblers wore [02:29.08] [02:29.72]He spread his money far and wide to [02:31.92]Help the sick and the poor [02:33.61]And it's ride Willie ride [02:36.13]Roll Willie roll [02:37.78]Wherever you are gambling now [02:39.80]Nobody knows [02:40.98] [02:45.52]When you played your cards with Willie [02:47.29]You never really knew [02:48.91] [02:49.71]Whether he was bluffing or whether he was true [02:53.71]He won a fortune from a man [02:55.66]Who folded in his chair [02:56.90] [02:57.44]The man he left a diamond flush [02:59.57]Willie didn't even have a pair [03:01.35]And it's ride Willie ride [03:02.76] [03:03.83]Roll Willie roll [03:04.72] [03:05.60]Wherever you are gambling now [03:07.62]Nobody knows [03:08.52] [03:12.39]It was late one evening during a poker game [03:16.56]A man lost all his money he said [03:18.74]"Willie was to blame" [03:20.58]He shot poor Willie through the head [03:22.62]Which was a tragic fate [03:24.54]When Willie's cards fell on the floor [03:26.49]They were aces backed with eights [03:28.40]And it's ride Willie ride [03:30.12] [03:30.80]Roll Willie roll [03:32.53]Wherever you are gambling now [03:34.62]Nobody knows [03:39.54]So all you rambling gamblers [03:41.40]Wherever you might be [03:43.72]The moral of this story is very plain to see [03:47.54]Make your money while you can [03:49.40]Before you have to stop [03:51.56]For when you pull that dead man's hand [03:53.37]Your gambling days are up [03:55.05]And it's ride Willie ride [03:56.81] [03:57.84]Roll Willie roll [03:59.77]Wherever you are gambling now [04:01.63]Nobody really knows