Kentucky Gambler

About Kentucky Gambler

"Kentucky Gambler" is a 1974 song written and performed by Dolly Parton. "Kentucky Gambler" was issued as a track from Dolly Parton's, The Bargain Store album from 1975. That same year, Merle Haggard and The Strangers covered "Kentucky Gambler" and it was their nineteenth number one song on the country chart. (Coincidentally, Parton's The Bargain Store album featured a cover of a Haggard composition, "You'll Always Be Special to Me".) The Merle Haggard and The Strangers version stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the chart. (The following year, Haggard would cover another Dolly Parton song, "The Seeker".) more »

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2004

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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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Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country music song writer, singer, guitarist, fiddler and instrumentalist. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era. more »

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