Gambling Rover

I've been wandering this country, no place to call my own I've been wandering this country for twenty years or so I met a girl in Frisco, a girl so smart and sly She talked her way into my heart and she took me for a ride We bounced around from town to town, but when we had to part She'd emptied out my pockets and stole away my heart I became about as lonesome as any man can be So I hopped a train not knowing where it would carry me I met up with a gambling man as we rolled into Tennessee And to a game of poker, that gambler challenged me No money for the betting, I laid down my life instead Either I win all his money or a bullet in the head He dealt my fate to me from some old worn out deck And a grin stretched across his face as I gave my cards a check I've been wandering this country, now it's time for me to go I've been wandering this country, now God please rest my soul God, please rest my soul