Intro: C F C G C
C C7 F
Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer,
C Am G
For you know that the odds won't ride with you.
C C7 F
Never leave your woman alone with your friends around to steal her.
C Am G C
She'll be gambled and gone like summer wages.
C C7 F
And we'll keep rollin' on till we get to Vancouver
C Am G
And the lady that I love, she's living there.
C C7 F
It's been six long months and more since I've seen her,
C Am G C
Maybe she's gambled and gone like summer wages.
G7 F C
In all the beer parlors all down along Main Street
C Am F G
The dreams of the season are all spilled out on the floor.
G F C
All the big stands of timber waitin' there just for fallin'.
C Am F G
And the hookers standin' watchfully, waitin' by the door.
C C7 F
So I'll work on the tow boats with my slippery city shoes—
C Am G
Lord, I swore I would never do that again.
C C7 F
Through the gray fog-bound straits where the cedars stand watchin',
C Am G C
I'll be far off and gone like summer wages.
F C Am
And the years are gambled and lost
G C G C
Like summer wages