Gamblin With My Love

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  Well, I was writing a play about
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 Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti
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 It takes place in a Motel 6 just 
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outside of Cincinnatti
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 There's a table and a bottle of 
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whiskey they're drinking but they 
light a cigarette first
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 Pete Rose looks terrible, Giamatti 
looks worse

Giamatti says, "Pete, be straight 
with me have you been gambling on 
games?"
Pete says, "Commissioner where I 
come from, we bet on everything"
He says, "Let's get to the point 
Pete, did you ever bet on your own 
team?"
I'm not sure what Pete's gonna 
reply, but I think I'll have the 
telephone ring

Continues after the ad
It's gonna be Shoeless Joe Jackson 
calling from Tangiers
He says, "Commissioner, if you don't
 throw him out what have I been 
doing all these years?
Bagging groceries and painting 
houses, having to to beg and steal 
and rob"
Pete tries to grab the receiver, he 
says, "I can tell you stuff about Ty
 Cobb"

Then I hear a knocking, a knocking 
at my door
It's my sweet Martha and I open up 
and she crawls in on the floor
Says put down your paper and pen, 
boy, that can wait another day
I say, "What's wrong?" she grabs my 
leg, says, "All I've got to say is

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Are you gambling with my love, are 
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you saying you don't care?
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Are you gambling with my love while
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 you sit there in that chair?
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Are you gonna gamble? Are you gonna
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 gamble?
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Gambling with my love"

I say girl, "I got backers. I've got
 money people waiting for this stuff
I've got a theatre off Broadway 
convinced one act ain't gonna be 
enough"
I say, "I'm starting to roll with 
this dialogue, I'm getting inside 
Pete Rose's head"
I say, "He can taste the Hall of 
Fame," she says, "Don't you want to 
taste me instead?"

I say, "Girl, do you understand how 
with four thousand hits a man could 
still feel emptiness?"
And I have Pete say, "Commissioner, 
what you got in your hand?" And he 
says, "Can't you guess?"
Pete says, "If I was a betting man 
I'd say you were trying to bluff me 
to my face"
Commissioner says, "Too bad you 
ain't as good playing the odds as 
playing second base"

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Ooooooooooo, gambling with my 
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love