Joan Baez - Rambler, Gambler (Lyrics) [HD]

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Joan Baez sings the traditional song 'Rambler, Gambler'. This song is on her 1963 Vanguard album 'Joan Baez In Concert, Part 2' (mono version only). The song lyrics are in the video and listed below with some notes on the album.

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Rambler, Gambler

Singer - Joan Baez

I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler
I'm a long way from home
And if people don't like me
They can leave me alone

It's a dark night and it's lonesome
The moon gives no light
My pony won't travel
This dark road tonight

Well I had me a little sweetheart
Her age was nineteen
She was the flower of Belton
The rose of Saline

But her parents didn't like me
Now she is the same
If I'm writ on your book, love
Just you blot out my name

I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler
I'm a long way from home
And if people don't like me
They can leave me alone

Songwriter: Traditional Song

[Lyrics from azlyrics.com]

Wikipedia states:

"The Rambling Gambler" is a traditional folk song of the American West. It was first recorded in print by John A. & Alan Lomax in their jointly authored 1938 edition of Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. Like many folk songs, it is known by a variety of titles, such as "Rambler, Gambler," "I'm a Rambler, I'm a Gambler," "The Moonshiner," and "Rose of Aberdeen." The song begins with the lines "I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler, I'm a long way from home / And the people who don't like me, they can leave me alone." Its lyrics mention two towns in Texas, Belton and Saline, as well as the state of Wyoming. John Lomax did not include the song in his original 1910 edition of Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, but it appears in the 1938 edition, co-authored with his son Alan. The younger Lomax recorded that they learned the song from one Alec Moore, whom he described as a "retired cowpuncher … whose present occupation is riding herd on an ice-cream wagon on the streets of Austin, Texas."

Alan Lomax recorded his own rendition for his 1958 LP Texas Folksongs (Tradition Records, TLP1029). In September 1960, 19-year-old Bob Dylan recorded the song — his second-earliest known solo recording session. The recording can be found (titled "Rambler, Gambler") on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack. Joan Baez performed the song live in the early 1960s; a 1963 recording is included in some editions of Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2.

Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 was a second installment of live material, recorded during Joan Baez' concert tours of early 1963. It peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. In Concert, Part 2 is the first Baez album to feature a Bob Dylan cover: "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" and "With God on Our Side" (according to Baez, the first Dylan song she ever learned). On the original vinyl Vanguard releases, the Stereo and mono releases had different track lists; the track "With God on Our Side" from the stereo release is dropped; in its place on the mono release are the tracks "Railroad Bill" and "Rambler, Gambler".