Rambling, Gambling Willie - Bob Dylan Come around you roving Gamblers and a story I will tell About the greatest gambler You all should know him well His name was Will O' Conley And he gambled all his life He's had twenty-seven children Yet he's never had a wife And it's ride Willie ride Roll Willie roll Wherever you are gambling now Nobody knows
Well he gambled in the White House and in the railroad yards Wherever there was people There was Willie and his cards He had the reputation As the gamblingest man around
Wives would keep their husbands home When Willie came to town And it's ride Willie ride
Roll Willie roll Wherever you are gambling now Nobody knows
Sailing down the Mississippi to a town Called New Orleans They're still talking about their card Game on that Jackson River Queen "I've come to win some money " Gambling Willie says When the game finally ended up The whole darn boat was his And it's ride Willie ride Roll Willie roll Wherever you are gambling now Nobody really knows Up in the rocky mountains in a town Called Cripple Creek There was an all-night poker game Lasted about a week Nine hundred miners had laid their money down When Willie finally left the room He owned the whole darn town And it's ride Willie ride Roll Willie roll
Wherever you are gambling now Nobody knows
But Willie had a heart of gold and This I know is true He supported all his children and All their mothers too He wore no rings or fancy things Like other gamblers wore
He spread his money far and wide to Help the sick and the poor And it's ride Willie ride Roll Willie roll Wherever you are gambling now Nobody knows
When you played your cards with Willie You never really knew
Whether he was bluffing or whether he was true He won a fortune from a man Who folded in his chair
The man he left a diamond flush Willie didn't even have a pair And it's ride Willie ride
Roll Willie roll
Wherever you are gambling now Nobody knows
It was late one evening during a poker game A man lost all his money he said "Willie was to blame" He shot poor Willie through the head Which was a tragic fate When Willie's cards fell on the floor They were aces backed with eights And it's ride Willie ride
Roll Willie roll Wherever you are gambling now Nobody knows So all you rambling gamblers Wherever you might be The moral of this story is very plain to see Make your money while you can Before you have to stop For when you pull that dead man's hand Your gambling days are up And it's ride Willie ride
Roll Willie roll Wherever you are gambling now Nobody really knows
