Roving Gambler-Ramblin' Jack Elliott

[ti:Roving Gambler] [ar:Ramblin' Jack Elliott] [al:Vanguard Visionaries] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.74]Roving Gambler - Ramblin' Jack Elliott [00:07.18] [00:10.06]I'm a roving gambler [00:13.13] [00:14.90]And I gamble down in town [00:17.72] [00:19.29]Whenever I meet with a deck of cards [00:21.60]I lay my money down [00:23.80] [00:24.79]Boys I lay my money down [00:27.10] [00:31.35]I've gambled up in Washington [00:34.03] [00:35.71]Gambled down in Maine [00:38.65]I'm on my way to Georgia [00:40.26]To knock down my last game [00:43.08]Boys knock down my last game [00:45.57] [00:50.58]Well I had not been in Washington [00:53.09] [00:54.78]Many more weeks than three [00:56.74]When I fell in love with a pretty [00:58.93]Little girl [00:59.35]And she fell in love with me [01:01.44] [01:02.06]And she fell in love with me [01:05.31] [01:08.74]She took me in her parlor [01:10.85]She cooled me with her fan [01:12.91]She whispered low in her mama's ear [01:15.11]I love this gamblin man [01:17.89] [01:18.90]Ma I love this gamblin man [01:22.22] [01:32.24]Well daughter my dear daughter [01:34.37]How can you treat me so [01:36.54]To leave your poor old mama [01:38.47]And with this gambler go [01:40.73] [01:41.92]And with this gambler go [01:44.78] [01:48.41]Well mama my dear mama [01:50.28]You know I love you well [01:52.34]But the love I hold for a gamblin [01:54.45]Man [01:54.77]No human tongue can tell [01:56.70] [01:57.72]Ma no human tongue can tell [02:01.04] [02:14.99]I'd never marry a farmer [02:17.41]He's always in the rain [02:19.11]I'd rather marry a gamblin' man [02:21.10]With a big gold watch and chain [02:23.84] [02:24.46]Ma big gold watch and chain [02:27.34] [02:31.90]And I'd never marry a railroad man [02:34.35]The reason I'll tell you why [02:36.02]Never did see a railroad man [02:38.05]Who wouldn't tell his wife a lie [02:41.43]Ma wouldn't tell his wife a lie [02:44.82] [02:49.62]I hear the train a-comin [02:50.87]Comin around the curve [02:55.80]Whistling and a-blowin [02:57.05]And a-strainin every nerve [02:59.70] [03:00.76]Ma strainin every nerve [03:03.13] [03:06.81]It's good-bye good-bye mama [03:08.39]Tell you if I can [03:10.78]If you ever see me comin home again [03:12.98]It will be with a gamblin man [03:16.42]Ma be with a gamblin' man