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I'm a Rambler, I'm a Gambler

by Gordon Bok

on A Rogue's Gallery of Songs for 12-String (1983), Then & Now (2015)

I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler
I'm a long way from home
And the people don't like me
They can leave me alone

I'll eat when I'm hungry
Drink when I'm dry
And the whiskey don't kill me
I'll live 'til I die

If you go down to Canso
Don't go there for long
For their dark eyes are pretty
But their fingers are strong

They'll anchor your drifting
In their smiles and their thighs
And their tresses will bind you
And there's gold in their eyes

There's changes in the ocean
Changes in the sea
There's changes in my true love
There's no change in me

I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler
I'm a long way from home
And the people don't like me
They can leave me alone