The Gambler chords by Fun.

Chords with lyrics

Submitted by: Higoo

Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb
Bb Bb/A G minorGm FF Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb

Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm
Slow down,
FF     Eb MajorEb        FF
we’ve got time left to be lazy
    Bb majorBb    Bb/A     G minorGm FF   Eb MajorEb        FF
All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes.
     Bb majorBb  Bb/A G minorGm  FF   Eb MajorEb        FF
We’ve got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden
     Eb MajorEb       DmDm
I don’t care to beg your pardon,
      C minorCm  FF
We should live
      Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb
until we die.

    Bb majorBb     Bb/A      G minorGm          DmDm Eb MajorEb FF
We were barely eighteen when we’d crossed collective hearts.
    Eb MajorEb        DmDm      C minorCm         FF
It was cold, but it got warm when you’d barely crossed my eye.
       Bb majorBb      Bb/A  G minorGm
and then you turned, put out your hand,
  FF  Eb MajorEb      FF
and you asked me to dance.
    Eb MajorEb     DmDm         C minorCm       FF


I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight.


 Eb MajorEb        FF              Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF
I swear when I grow up, I won’t just buy you a rose.
    Eb MajorEb       FF               Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely.
Eb MajorEb           FF
Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
       Bb majorBb        Bb/A      G minorGm
I will not leave, I will not leave ’till it’s our time.
     Eb MajorEb             FF            Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.

Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb


      Bb majorBb     Bb/A      G minorGm        DmDm Eb MajorEb FF
It was the winter of ’86, and all the fields had frozen over.
    Eb MajorEb    DmDm    C minorCm      FF
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
       Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF
and now he’s turning to a man,
      Eb MajorEb          FF
although he thinks just like his mother,
   Eb MajorEb          DmDm       C minorCm     FF

he believes we’re all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.

     Bb majorBb     Bb/A G minorGm
And even though she moved away,
  FF     Eb MajorEb       FF
we always get calls from our daughter.
    Eb MajorEb         DmDm
She has eyes just like her father’s
     C minorCm         FF
they are blue when skies are grey
       Bb majorBb    Bb/A  G minorGm  FF
And just like him, she never stops,
    Eb MajorEb        FF
Never takes the day for granted,
Eb MajorEb              DmDm
works for everything that’s handed to her,
C minorCm       FF
Never once complains.


Eb MajorEb         FF   Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF
You think that I nearly lost you
     Eb MajorEb        FF     Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF
When the doctors tried to take you away.
       Eb MajorEb        FF        Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF
But like the night you took my hand beside the fire
    Eb MajorEb    FF
thirty years ago
     Bb majorBb
to this day
Eb MajorEb                FF
You swore you’d be here ’til we decide that it’s our time
        Bb majorBb         Bb/A      G minorGm
Well it’s not time, you’ve never quit in all your life.
     Eb MajorEb             FF           Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm
So just take my hand, you know that I’ll never leave your side.
      Eb MajorEb              FF           Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb
You’re the love of my life, you know that I’ll never leave your side.

Bb majorBb Bb/A G minorGm FF Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb
Bb Bb/A G minorGm FF Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb
Bb Bb/A G minorGm FF Eb MajorEb FF Bb majorBb Bb/A Bb majorBb
Eb MajorEb DmDm C minorCm DmDm Eb MajorEb FF
Eb MajorEb DmDm C minorCm FF

     Bb majorBb    Bb/A G minorGm FF
You come home from work
     Eb MajorEb       FF
and you kiss me on the eye
       Eb MajorEb        DmDm       C minorCm        FF
You curse the dog you say that I should never feed them what is ours
      Bb majorBb   Bb/A  G minorGm  FF
and so we move all to the garden
    Eb MajorEb        FF
look at everything we’ve owned
    Eb MajorEb       DmDm
now the kids are coming home
  C minorCm       DmDm Eb MajorEb FF
so I set the table
         Bb majorBb
You can make the fire.

THE END