Gambling Man Lyrics Bob Seger
- Lord I got to gamble, Gamblin' man. Ahh I got to ramble, Ramblin' man. And I was born a ramblin' gamblin' man. I hope you got money, Sho gonna need some. Ain't gonna run on lovin' And I got to run. I got to keep movin', Never gonna slow down. You can have your funky world, See ya 'round. I got to ramble, Ramblin' man.
- Bob Seger - Ramblin` Gamblin` Man Lyrics. Yeah, I'm gonna tell my tale come on, Come on, give a listen Cause I was born lonely down by the riverside Learned to spin fortune whee.
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Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Ramblin` Gamblin` Man Lyrics. Yeah, I'm gonna tell my tale come on, Come on, give a listen Cause I was born lonely down by the riverside Learned to spin fortune wheels. 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man' is a song written and performed by Bob Seger (as the Bob Seger System). The song was originally released as a single in October 1968, then as a track on the album of the same name in April 1969. The single fared.
April 1969. The Bob Seger System.
Bob Seger (vocals, guitar, piano, organ), Don Honaker (bass, vocals) and Pep Perrine (drums, vocals). Also with Mike Erelewine (blues harp on 'Down Home') and Bob Schultz (organ on 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man').
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Reached #62 on the Billboard album chart. The title track reached #17 on the singles chart and was a staple of Seger's live act for 15 years, before dropping off the playlist.
Standout tracks
Hard to list, because there are so many. Almost thirty years after they were recorded, the raw intensity of these tracks persists; they haven't lost a bit of power for me. In addition to the title track, standout cuts include:
'2+2=?' -- The album version has the dead stop near the end -- the 45 version has a guitar chord added, not because the song needs it, but because radio stations fear dead air. (Although it's not quite dead. Put the headphones on and you can hear someone -- Honaker? -- come in just a fraction early.)
'Tales of Lucy Blue' -- Lucy Blue and Chicago Green both get another mention two albums later in 'Lucifer.'
'Ivory' -- The lyrics include the line, 'You were born with a face that would let you get your way,' later used in slightly different form in 'Hollywood Nights'
'Down Home' is a killer cut (with a false ending), and the softer 'Train Man' is also classic.
I was roaming around one of my favorite web sites, www.allmusic.com, not long ago, when I noticed that the president of the All Music Guide was listed as Michael Erelewine -- the same name credited for the killer blues harp on 'Down Home.' I sent off an email to see if he was indeed the same person, and got the following reply:
'Yup. That was me playing on the track. The hard part was that Seger insisted in playing in a weird key (weird for harmonicas, that is), so that I had to use a harp with about two sounds available. It was tough.Checked out your file. Cool!
Michael Erlewine'
I'm always impressed when people answer my emails (which is why I try to answer all the Seger email I get). And I've found www.allmusic.com to be a great resource. Check it out.
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Listening to 'The Last Song (Love Needs to Be Loved)' makes me wonder if Seger was inspired by Arthur Lee and Love...the way the melody bends around, you can almost imagine Lee singing it. Whatever, the track contends with the much later 'Blue Monday' for one (actually two) of the most jarringly inept edits -- listen at the end where the chorus is scissored in and then back out.
For the first single off the album, Punch and Seger insisted on the antiwar rocker, '2+2=?' Says Punch: 'Capitol was real conservative back then. They got real bent out of shape about my even suggesting that people should be questioning the war. I was literally thrown out of the office, and the record did a quick dive.' Timothy White, May 1, 1980, Rolling Stone. 'The Fire This Time.'
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The oddity on the album is 'Doctor Fine,' a 1:05 instrumental -- the only instrumental on any Bob Seger album. The reason it's there is obvious. It's right after '2+2=?' -- a song so powerful that nothing can really follow it, hence the throw-away before getting into 'The Last Song.'
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The CD version says 'All songs written by Bob Seger,' though the original album credits 'Gone' to Dan Honaker.