Biography:
Mike Ness (born Michael James Ness, born April 3, 1962) is a country music singer and guitarist, best known as the vocalist, guitarist, and chief songwriter for the American punk rock band Social Distortion.
Ness was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts and raised in Fullerton in Orange County, California. Kicked out of his parents' home in Fullerton at the age of fifteen, he dabbled in drugs and petty crime, involving himself in the punk scene and founding Social Distortion in 1978.
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Mike Ness - Gamblin' Man
Alternatively, you can CAPO I and play as follows:
F = E
B = A
C = Barred C (relative to Capo, X24442)
Intro: F(3 measures or 12 count) B B F F B F C F B F C F
F
Well I'm a rovin gambler I've seen most every town
B F
When ever I meet with a deck of cards I lay my money down
B F
Gonna lay my money down, yea gonna lay my money down
F (3 measures or 12 count) B B F F B F C F
F
I've gambled out in Texas and down in New Orleans
B F
I've lost a pot with four of a kind and won with a couple of queens
B F
Gonna Bluff with a couple of queens, yea I won with a couple of queens
F (3 measures or 12 count) B B F F B F C F
F
Well I met a friend in Frisco and Lady Luck was her name
B F
Yea I couldn't lose with a pair of twos till a woman got in the game
B F
A red head got in the game, yea a woman got in the game
F (3 measures or 12 count) B B F F B F C F
F
Yea she won my old black panhead and she won my switch blade knife
B F
And when I lost everything I had she told me to bet my life
B F
She told me to bet my life, she told me to bet my life
F (3 measures or 12 count) B B F F B F C F
F
If you don't wanna lose your freedom, you care about your life
B F
Don't get in a game with a red head thing, you'll win yourself a wife
B F
You'll win yourself a wife, now you got yourself a wife
Alternatively, you can CAPO I and play as follows:
F = E
B = A
C = Barred C (relative to Capo, X24442)
Intro: F(3 measures or 12 count) B B F F B F C F B F C F
F
Well I'm a rovin gambler I've seen most every town
B F
When ever I meet with a deck of cards I lay my money down
B F
Gonna lay my money down, yea gonna lay my money down
F (3 measures or 12 count) B B F F B F C F
F
I've gambled out in Texas and down in New Orleans
B F
I've lost a pot with four of a kind and won with a couple of queens
B F
Gonna Bluff with a couple of queens, yea I won with a couple of queens
F (3 measures or 12 count) B B F F B F C F
F
Well I met a friend in Frisco and Lady Luck was her name
B F
Yea I couldn't lose with a pair of twos till a woman got in the game
B F
A red head got in the game, yea a woman got in the game
F (3 measures or 12 count) B B F F B F C F
F
Yea she won my old black panhead and she won my switch blade knife
B F
And when I lost everything I had she told me to bet my life
B F
She told me to bet my life, she told me to bet my life
F (3 measures or 12 count) B B F F B F C F
F
If you don't wanna lose your freedom, you care about your life
B F
Don't get in a game with a red head thing, you'll win yourself a wife
B F
You'll win yourself a wife, now you got yourself a wife
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