Steve Forbert - Gambling Barroom Blues lyrics

(Jimmie Rodgers) I went down to the corner, just to meet my gal, I found her standing on the sidewalk, talking to my pal. I strolled back to the bar room, to get another drink of gin. But the first thing I knew, I was reelin', rocking and drunk again. I kept drinking gin and liquor to way up in the night, when my pal walked into the bar room, we had an awful fight. I reached down for my razor, and we knocked around, but when I pulled my pistol, I quickly smoked him down. ref:Hay-ee-hay-hoo-a-ha-ha bo-hoo-hey-ho the gamblin bar room blues I went to see my baby, and met her on the way, I told her I've had to leave her, I told her I could not stay. I started down to the station and stopped in at the bar, there I met a policeman, riding in a motor car. We both drank lots of liqour, that flat footed cop and I, I thought he would never leave me, Lord, I thought I'd die. My baby came in to join us, and then it began to rain, then I had to hurry, hurry, to catch that midnight train. I laid my head on the ballroom door, I never get drunk anymore, I found my watch and my golden chain, I found my babys diamond ring. Police, police, police, you're just as drunk as me, I grabbed that all eight-wheeler, and went to the deep blue sea-ee.