Standard (EADGBE)

 Intro --- 1x

If I was a gambling man,

never would have let you play your hand

 with the broken down cowboy like me

Cos you never can trust your luck

he's bad news in a pickup truck

 a broken down cowboy like me

He played every card he's got

had a good hand but he messed it up

 With that bum-around tumble-down heart

Saddlebags full of pain

carries them around just like her middle name

a losing streak play them or dont

Chorus

Oh he string you along sang you a lonesome song

but he wind up alone again

--- 2x

no matter how hard you try

never gonna let you get inside

 that tumbled down broken down hard

it's a tough riding rodeo

mean hard stewin long time ago

 a broken down cowboy like me

But the way I feel about you

wouldn't want that horse to hurt you to

 a broken down cowboy like me

Solo

same as verse)

Chorus

Oh he string you along sang you a lonesome song

but he wind up alone again

--- 2x

If I was a gambling man,

never would have let you play that hand

 with the broken down cowboy like me