Standard (EADGBE)

My daddy was a handsome gambler he had a chain five miles long

 On every link a heart gets dangled of another maid he loved and

wronged

 He told to you some loving story

 He'd make you think he'd leave them true

But love grows cold as love grows older and fades away like morning

dew

 I'd rather be in some dark hollow where the sun refused to shine

 Than to live here in Missouri with your memory always on my mind

 Come all ye fair and tender ladies take warning how your court your

man

 They're like a star on a summer morning

 First they appear then they're gone again

Solo

 Come all ye fair and tender ladies take warning how your court your

man

 They're like a star on a summer morning

 First they appear then they're gone again

From the "So Rebellious A Lover" LP Rhino Records 1987