Capo on fret #1 
 
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I wanted more from life, than four kids and a wife 
       G       D             G 
And a job in a dark Kentucky mine. 
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A twenty acre farm , with a shackey house and barn 
      G              D          G 
Thats all I had and all I left behind 
 
 
G                                  C 
But at gambling, I was lucky, and so I left Kentucky 
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And left behind my woman and my kids 
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Into the gay casinos, of Nevada's town of Reno 
G                     D                    G           
This Kentucky Gambler planned to get rich quick  
 
                                                       
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Kentucky gambler who's gonna love your woman in Kentucky 
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Yeah and who's going to be the one to give her all she needs. 
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Kentucky gambler, who's going to raise your children in  Kentucky 
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And who's going to keep them fed and keep them shoes on their feet 
 
 
G                                 C 
There at the gambler's Paradise, Lady luck was on my side 
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and this Kentucky gambler played just right 
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Yeah I won at everything I  played - I really thought I had  it made 
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But I should have quit and gone on home that night 
 
 
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But when you love the green backed dollar, sorrow always bound tofollow 
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and Reno's dreams fade into neon amber 
G 
And Lady Luck, she'll lead you on 
       C 
She'll stay a while, and then she's gone 
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You better go on home, Kentucky gambler 
 
 
G                                           C 
But a gambler never seems to stop, till he loses all he's got 
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and with a money - hungry fever, I played on 
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I played till I'd lost all I'd won, I was right back where I'd started from. 
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Then I started wanting - to go home 
 
 
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Kentucky gambler, there ain't nobody, waiting in Kentucky 
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When I ran out, somebody else walked in 
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Kentucky gambler, looks like you ain't really very lucky 
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And it seems to me a gambler loses much more than he wins 
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much more than he wins.