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I wanted more from life, than four kids and a wife |
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And a job in a dark Kentucky mine. |
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A twenty acre farm, with a shackey house and barn |
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Thats all I had and all I left behind |
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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 |
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This Kentucky Gambler planned to get rich quick |
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Kentucky gambler who's going to 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 |
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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 to follow |
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and Reno's dreams fade into neon amber |
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And Lady Luck, she'll lead you on |
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She'll stay a while, and then she's gone |
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You better go on home, Kentucky gambler |
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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. |
