I love to gamble, and gambling's all I do And when I lose, it never makes me blue I gambled away my money, and I gambled away my shack Same way I lost it, same way I'll get it back I won a woman, in a poker game I lost her too, win another one just the same Sometime I'm rich, sometime I ain't got a cent But I've had a good time : everywhere I went Got a new mama, ain't going to gamble her away Going to keep her with me, each and every day