Chords for I've Always Been A Rambler

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_ _ I've always been a rambler, my [C] fortune's been quite high.
_ I've always loved the women, drank whiskey and flacon.
_ _ My parents treated me kindly, [Bb] as they had no boy [F] but me.
My mind was bent on ramblin', at home I couldn't agree. _
There was a wealthy farmer who lived in the country by.
He had a handsome daughter to whom I cast an eye.
She was so tall and handsome, [Bb] so pretty and [F] so fair.
There's not a girl in the whole wide world [C] to whom I could [F] compare. _
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_ I asked her if it made any difference [C] if I crossed over [F] the plain.
She said it makes no difference if you return again.
She said that she'd prove true to [Bb] me until I [F] proved unkind.
These two hands were parted, [C] with the one I left [F] behind.
_ _ I left, though, North Carolina to [C] marry and [F] I did go.
Went on to Johnson City, gonna see this world, oh.
Where money and work was [Bb] plentiful and the [F] girls treated me kind.
The one main object in my heart was the one I left behind.
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_ I rambled out one evening, [C] down on the public [F] square.
The mail had just arrived when the postman met me there.
He handed me a letter [Bb] which gave me to [F] understand.
The girl I left in North [C] Carolina had married another [F] man.
_ I read a few lines further till I found [F] that it was true.
My heart was filled with trouble, I didn't know what to do.
My heart was filled with trouble, [Bb] with troubles on my [F] mind.
I'm gonna drink and gamble for the one I left behind. _
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