Drinking and Gambling Gonna Be My Ruin

DESCRIPTION: "Drinking and gambling gonna be my ruin (x3), Gonna be my ruin, gonna be my ruin. Drinking and gambing gonna be my ruin."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1973 (NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal)
KEYWORDS: drink gambling hardtimes
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Charles W. Joyner, "The Repertory of Nancy Jones as a Mirror of Culture in Scotland County," Vol. XXI, No. 3 (Sep 1973), p. 95, "(Drinking and gambling gonna be my ruin" (1 fragment)
Roud #32511
File: NCF213DG

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