The Gambler by fun.
Not sure if 100% correct, but it is definitely really close. Also this is my first
tab and its 100% by ear. Enjoy.
Standard Tuning
Capo on 5
Chords Used: C G F Am
You can play chords in lieu of finger-picking.
C G F G F G C
e |--------------------0-----1-----0-----------|
B |1-----3-----1-----------3-----1-----3-1-----|
G |----0-----0-----2-----0-----2-----0-------0-| x2
D |--2-----0-----3-----------3-------------2---|
A |3-----2-----0-------2-----------2-----3-----|
E |--------------------------------------------|
C G F C
Slow down, we've got time left to be lazy
C G F C
All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes
C G F C
We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden
F C G F C G C G F C F C G
I don't care to beg your pardon, we should live until we die
C G F C
We were barely eighteen when we crossed collective hearts
F C G
It was cold, but it got warm when you barely crossed my eye
C G F C
And then you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to dance
F C G
I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight
F G C
I swear when I grow up I won't just buy you a rose
F G C
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely
F C G
For even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
C G Am
I will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's our time
F G C G F C F C G
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side
C G F C
It was the winter of '86, all the fields had frozen over
F C G
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
C G F C
And now he's turned into a man, though he thinks just like his mother
F C G
He believes we're all just lovers, he sees hope in everyone
C G F C
And even though she moved away, we always get calls from our daughter
F C G
She has eyes just like her father's, they are blue when skies are gray
C G F C
And just like him she never stops, never takes the day for granted
F C G
Works for everything that's handed to her, never once complains
F G C F G C
You think that I nearly lost you when the doctors tried to take you away
F G C G Am G C
Like the night you took my hand beside the fire thirty years ago to this day,
F C G
You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
C G Am
But it's not time, you never quit in all your life
F G C G Am
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side
F G C G F G F G C
You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side
C G F C
You come home from work, and you kiss me on the eye
F C G
You curse the dog, you say that I should never feed them what is ours
C G F C
So we move out to the garden, look at everything we've grown
F C G F G C
And the kids are coming home so I'll set the table; you can make the fire