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."