Chords for Clifton Hicks - I've Always Been a Rambler (Girl I Left Behind)

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I've always been a rambler, my fortunes do quite hard.
[D] I always [C] loved the women, drank whiskey and [A] played cards.
My parents [E] treated me kindly, had no more of old [C] women.
I shook hands and parted at the age of twenty-three.
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_ _ _ There was a wealthy farmer, he lived a neighbor by.
She had one only daughter, whom I cast my eye.
She was most tall and handsome, and old so far.
Only one got in the Bible before her.
She would _ _ _ _ be true to me while I crossed for the plain.
She said it made me smooth [E] her dress, and never returned again.
She said she would be true to me till the sea burned with fire.
So I shook hands and parted with the gal I left behind. _ _ _
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I left North North Carolina to marry my dear mom.
I'm one of [C] the Johnson City boys, all in the street and snow.
Working money, working plenty for the women, treated me kind.
But the only object of my heart was the gal I left behind.
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_ _ _ [D] I was walking up on Georgia Street, off in the promise.
Bill was just returning, from his boy [Am] Matthew's end.
He handed me a [E] letter, I might understand.
[C] But the gal I left behind, she had bad trouble with me. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ I read all the few lines, so I wrote till the scene and it was clear.
My heart was filled with trouble, I didn't know what to do.
My heart [E] was filled with trouble, [C] trouble on my mind.
But I'm going to drink and gamble for the gal I left behind. _ _ _
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