Gambling Man

(album: Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2 - 1964)

Ah gambled down in Washington
Ah gambled down in Maine
Going down to Georgia
To knock down my last game
Ahm a gamibling man man man
Ahm a gambling' man
Ahm a gambling

I had not been in Washington
Many more weeks than three
When I fell in love with a pretty little gal
And she fell in love with me
Ahm a Gambling man man man
Ahm a Gambling man
Ahm a gambling

She took me in her parlour
Cooled me with her fan
She said "Oh Mother, Mother
I'm in love with a gambling man"
Ahm a gambling' man, man...

She said "Oh Daughter, Daughter
How could you treat me so
Leave your poor old Mother
And with that gambler go"
Ahm a gambling man, man...

I hear that train a-coming
A-coming round the curve
A-whistling and a-screaming
Straining every nerve
Ahm a gambling man, man...

I wouldn't marry a railroad man
And here's the reason why
I never knew a railroad man
Who wouldn't tell his wife a lie
Ahm a gambling man, man...

I would marry a farmer
He's always in the rain
I'd rather marry a gambling man
With a big gold watch and chain
Ahm a gambling man, man...

Man man man
Ahm a gambling man man man
Ahm a gambling man man man
Ahm a gambling man