Come around you rovin' gamblers and a story I tell About the greatest gambler, you all know him well His name was Will O' Conley and he all his life He's had twenty-seven children, yet never had a wife
And it's ride, Willie, Roll, Willie, Wherever you are now knows
Well, he in the White House and in the railroad yards Wherever there was people, there was and his cards He had the reputation as the gamblingest man would keep their husbands home when Willie came to town
And ride, Willie, ride Roll, Willie, you are gamblin' now Nobody
Sailin' down the Mississippi to a called New Orleans They're still talkin' about their card game on that Jackson River "I've come to win money," Gamblin' Willie says When the game finally ended up the whole darn was his
And it's ride, Willie, Roll, Willie, Wherever you are now Nobody knows
Up in the rocky mountains in a town called Cripple There was an all-night poker game, lasted a week hundred miners had laid their money down When finally left the room, he owned the whole darn town
And ride, Willie, ride Roll, Willie, Wherever you are now knows
But Willie had a heart of gold and this I is true He all his children and all their mothers too He wore no rings or things like other gamblers wore He spread his far and wide to help the sick and the poor
And it's ride, Willie, Roll, Willie, Wherever you are now Nobody
When you played your cards with Willie, you never knew Whether he was bluffin' or whether he was He won a fortune a man who folded in his chair The man, he a diamond flush, Willie didn't even have a pair
And ride, Willie, ride Roll, Willie, Wherever you are now knows
It was late one evenin' during a game A man all his money, he said, "Willie was to blame" He shot poor Willie through the head, was a tragic fate When Willie's cards fell on the floor, they were aces with eights
And it's ride, Willie, Roll, Willie, you are gamblin' now Nobody
So all you ramblin' gamblers, wherever you be The moral of this story is very to see Make your money while you can, before you to stop For when you pull dead man's hand, your gamblin' days are up
And ride, Willie, ride Roll, Willie, Wherever you are now really knows