Kentucky Gambler

Merle Haggard, Merle Haggard & the Strangers

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Merle Haggard & the Strangers

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Haggard was born in Oildale, California, toward the end of the Great Depression. His childhood was troubled after the death of his father, and he was incarcerated several times in his youth. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in 1960, he managed to turn his life around and launched a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class; these occasionally contained themes contrary to the anti–Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time. Between the 1960s and the 1980s he had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genr… more »


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1996
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I wanted more from life, than four kids and a wife
And a job in a dark Kentucky mine
A twenty-acre farm, with a shackey house and barn
That's all I had and all I left behind

But at gambling, I was lucky, and so I left Kentucky
And left behind my woman and my kids
Into the gay casinos, in Nevada's town of Reno
This Kentucky Gambler planned to get rich quick

(Kentucky gambler who's going to love your woman in Kentucky?)
Yeah, and who's going to be the one to give her everything she needs?
(Kentucky gambler, who's going to raise your children in Kentucky?)
And who's going to keep them fed and keep them shoes on their feet?

There at the gambler's paradise, Lady luck was on my side
And this Kentucky gambler played just right
Yeah, I won at everything I played, I really thought I had it made
But I should have quit and gone on home that night

But when you love the green-backed dollar, sorrow's always bound to follow
And Reno's dreams fade into neon amber
And Lady Luck, she'll lead you on
She'll stay a while, and then she's gone
You better go on home, Kentucky gambler

But a gambler never seems to stop, till he loses all he's got
And with a money-hungry fever, I played on
I played till I'd lost all I'd won, I was right back where I'd started from
Then I started wanting to go home

(Kentucky gambler, there ain't nobody, waiting in Kentucky)
When I ran out, somebody else walked in
(Kentucky gambler, looks like you ain't really very lucky)
And it seems to me a gambler loses much more than he wins
Much more than he wins

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