Well I'm a rovin gambler I've seen most every town 

When ever I meet with a deck of cards I lay my money down

Gonna lay my money down, yea gonna lay my money down



I've gambled out in Texas and down in New Orleans 

I've lost a pot with four of a kind and won with a couple of queens 

Gonna Bluff with a couple of queens, yea I won with a couple of queens



Well I meet a friend in Frisco and Lady Luck was her name

Yea I couldn't lose with a pair of twos till a woman got in the game 

A red head got in the game, yea a woman got in the game



Yea she won my old black panhead and she won my switch blade knife

And when I lost everything I had she told me to bet my life

She told me to bet my life, she told me to bet my life



If you don't wanna lose your freedom, you care about your life

Don't get in a game with a red head thing, you'll win yourself a wife

You'll win yourself a wife, now you got yourself a wife