Life Is A Gamble - Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry

Get out the cards and they wouldn’t notch it

Get on the horses and they wouldn’t knock it

I’m not gonna give up, I’m gonna try it again

Keep on bettin', someday Brownie’s bound to win

Life is a gamble

People, come rain, come shine

But if you keep on betting

You’re bound to win sometime

Take a horse to water but you can’t make him drink

Take a charge to school but you can’t lick a finger

You can dig a pit for somebody else

You don’t want, my friend to fall in that, oh, yourself

Life is a gamble

People, come rain, come shine

But if you keep on tryin'

You’re bound to win sometime

Your woman leaves you, please don’t wear no black

Two to one, she may come squealing back

If outstretched, here’s what she may say

«Please forgive me, Brownie for walkin' away»

Life is a gamble

People, come rain, come shine

But if you keep on waitin'

You’re bound, bound to win sometime

Rabbit and a turtle had a race one day

Rabbit could beat the turtle in any old way

The rabbit thought he was so fast

He laid down and went to sleep

When he woke up that old slow turtle had his deal

Life is a gamble

People come rain, come shine

But if you keep on movin'

You’re bound to win sometime

Sometime, sometime