Gambler's Bride - Joe Ely

Hello, my babe.

I’m back to stay

You’re sure wearing fine pretty things

But where is your ring, your ring and chain

I gave you last summer in the fallin' rain?

«Your ring,» she said, «You've been gone so long

I gave your ring away

I met a man, a gamblin' man

Said he would buy me the Milky Way.»

Away, Away.

I’ve been away

I’ve been so many miles

Where is the smile that once lit your face?

It seems a tear has taken is place

«My smile,» she sighed, with a look a little wild

«My smile it is possessed

I met a man, a gamblin' man

Said he would buy me happiness.»

I never, I never

You know I never

I never had much to give

But I gave you my heart

Now where is your heart?

It was all that I had from the very start

«My heart,» she cried, «It has been bought.»

She looked at me with fear

«I married that man, that gamblin' man

Who’d shoot you if he found you here.»