歌曲名 The Gambler

歌手名 Kenny Rogers

作词：Bob Tassi+Carl Gordodetsky+Chuck Jacobs+Danny Kee+Dottie West+Edgar Stubble+Edgar Stubble+Eric Prestidge+Hurshel Wiginton+Kenny Rogers+Kenny Rogers+Linell+Lynn Hammann+Nashville String Machine+Randy Dorman+Richard Harper+Val Valentin+Val Valentin

作曲：Schlitz+Bob Tassi+Carl Gordodetsky+Chuck Jacobs+Danny Kee+Dottie West+Edgar Stubble+Edgar Stubble+Eric Prestidge+Hurshel Wiginton+Kenny Rogers+Kenny Rogers+Linell+Lynn Hammann+Nashville String Machine+Randy Dorman+Richard Harper+Val Valentin+Val Valentin

On a warm summer's evening

On a train bound for nowhere

I met up with the gambler

We were both too tired of sleep

So we took turns at staring

Out the window at the darkness

Till boredom overtook us

And he began to speak

He said 'son I've made my life

Out of reading people's faces

And knowing what their cards were

By the way they held their eyes

So if you don't mind my saying

I can see you're out of aces

For a taste of your whiskey

I'll give you some advice'

So I handed him my bottle

And he drank down my last swallow

Then he bummed a cigarette

And asked me for a light

And the night got deathly quiet

And his face lost all expression

Said 'if you're gonna play the game boy

You gotta learn to play it right

You got to know when to hold them

Know when to fold them

Know when to walk away

And know when to run

You never count your money

When you're sitting at the table

There'll be time enough for counting

When the dealing's done

Every gambler knows

That the secret to surviving

Is knowing what to throw away

And knowing what to keep

Cause every hand's a winner

And every hand's a loser

And the best that

You can hope for is

To die in your sleep'

And when he'd finished speaking

He turned back towards the window

Crushed out his cigarette

And faded off to sleep

And somewhere in the darkness

The gambler he broke even

But in his final words I found

An ace that I could keep

You got to know when to hold them

Know when to fold them

Know when to walk away

And know when to run

You never count your money

When you're sitting at the table

There'll be time enough for counting

When the dealing's done

You got to know when to hold them

Know when to fold them

Know when to walk away

And know when to run

You never count your money

When you're sitting at the table

There'll be time enough for counting

When the dealing's done

You got to know when to hold them

Know when to fold them

Know when to walk away

And know when to run

You never count your money

When you're sitting at the table

There'll be time enough for counting

When the dealing's done'