-Artist: Frankie Laine as sung on "Frankie Laine's
Greatest Hits" -Columbia CS 8636 -Words by Bob Hilliard and Music by Phil
Springer
SPOKEN: You can gamble for match sticks, you can gamble for
gold. The stakes may be heavy or small. But if you haven't gambled for love
and lost, you haven't gambled at all.
They call me a moonlight
gambler I've gambled for love and lost When I gamble for love and it
isn't in the cards Oh, what heartaches it can cost me
Win or lose,
I'm a moonlight gambler And a winner is what I long to be So I'll gamble
for love just as long as I live Till the day Lady Luck smiles at
me
You can gamble for match sticks You can gamble for gold The
stakes may be heavy or small But if you haven't gambled for love and
lost Then you haven't gambled at all
No, if you haven't gambled for
love in the moonlight Then you haven't gambled at all
So I'll gamble
for love just as long as I live Till the day Lady Luck smiles at
me
They call me the moonlight gambler They call me the moonlight
gambler
Transcribed by Robin Hood
These lyrics were
transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above and do not
necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet music,
songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.