With regard to "Baby and the Gambler", here's the lyrics and translation the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band themselves provided in the liner notes to "Home Music with Spirits":

Mon bébé est malade couché dans le lit
Mon mari au gamblage ce soir surement.
Il m'a dit des menteries autant qu'(il y a d)es étoiles. (2x)

Juste avant j'suis mariée
Mes joues étaient roses
Et après j'suis mariée
(Ils) sont plus vertes que des choux
Ma maman m'a dit, "Quo' faire fu me quittes
Ma chère 'tite fille pour te marier?"
J'ai répondu, "Ouais, ma chère maman,
Mais tu connais, donc, que je l'aime trop gros."

Mais surement, si j'aurais connu tout ça,
Mais j'aurais écouté ma chère maman.
Mon bébé est malade, il pleur dans le lit,
Il appelle pour toi mais tu viens pas à lui.

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My baby is sick, bedded down in his bed
My husband is out gambling, surely.
He told me more lies than there are stars. (2x)

Just before I got married my cheeks were pink
And since I'm married they are greener than cabbage
My mama said to me, "Why are you leaving me,
My dear little girl, to get married?"
I answered, "Dear mama,
But you know that I love him too much."

Surely if I had known all this
I would have listened to my dear mother.
My baby is sick, he is crying in the bed,
He's crying for you but you won't come to see him.