come around you rovin' gamblers and a story i will tell
about the greatest gambler
you all should know him well
his name was will o'conley and he gambled all his life
he had twenty-seven children
yet he never had a wife
and it's ride
willie
ride
roll
willie
roll
wherever you are a-gamblin' now
nobody really knows
he gambled in the white house and in the railroad yards
wherever there was people
there was willie and his cards
he had the reputation as the gamblin'est man around
wives would keep their husbands home when willie came to town
and it's ride
willie
ride
roll
willie
roll
wherever you are a-gamblin' now
nobody really knows
sailin' down the mississippi to a town called new orleans
they're still talkin' about their card game on that jackson river queen
i've come to win some money