Album: Very Best Of Frankie Laine

Making Memories

Moonlight Gambler

-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