The Gambler Tab par Fun.

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Slow down,
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we've got time left to be lazy
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All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes.
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We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden
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I don't care to beg your pardon,
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We should live
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until we die.


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We were barely eighteen when we'd crossed collective hearts.
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It was cold, but it got warm when you'd barely crossed my eye.
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and then you turned, put out your hand,
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and you asked me to dance.
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I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight.


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I swear when I grow up, I won't just buy you a rose.
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I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely.
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Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
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I will not leave, I will not leave 'till it's our time.
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So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.

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It was the winter of '86, and all the fields had frozen over.
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So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
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and now he's turning to a man,
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although he thinks just like his mother,
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he believes we're all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.


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And even though she moved away,
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we always get calls from our daughter.
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She has eyes just like her father's
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they are blue when skies are grey
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And just like him, she never stops,
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Never takes the day for granted,
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works for everything that's handed to her,
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Never once complains.


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You think that I nearly lost you
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When the doctors tried to take you away.
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But like the night you took my hand beside the fire
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thirty years ago 
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to this day
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You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
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Well it's not time, you've never quit in all your life.
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So just take my hand, you know that I'll never leave your side.
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You're the love of my life, you know that I'll never leave your side.

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You come home from work
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and you kiss me on the eye
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You curse the dog you say that I should never feed them what is ours
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and so we move all to the garden
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look at everything we've owned
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now the kids are coming home
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so I set the table
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You can make the fire.