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

So they call me a moonlight gambler
Well, I've gambled for love and lost
When I gamble for love but 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 down on me

Well, you can gamble for match sticks,
You can gamble for gold
Stakes may be heavy or small
But if you haven't gambled for love and lost,
Well, 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 down on me

So they call me the moonlight gambler
Yes, they call me the moonlight gambler