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