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