![]() ![]() Pushing up the ante, I know you got to see me, You know I’m born to lose, and gambling’s for fools, Seven or Eleven, snake eyes watching you,ĭouble up or quit, double stake or split, Going with the flow, it’s all a game to me, Playing for the high one, dancing with the devil, ![]() I don’t share your greed, the only card I need is The pleasure is to play, makes no difference what you say, You win some, lose some, it’s all the same to me, If you like to gamble, I tell you I’m your man, I remember walking through Liverpool Street Station on my bleary-eyed way to work at about 6:30 one morning in the early nineties and heard this song blaring out at almost literally ear-splitting volume from W H Smith (newsagents, for non- British readers). It’s strange how odd little incidents stick in the memory. The Grateful Dead were all over these, but (a) I featured a Dead song last week and (b) the estimable newepicauthor has got there already ( plus ça change). Most of the other game-related songs I can think of relate to cards. Not unlike the team’s subsequent performances, in most cases. Apart from ‘Three Lions’ from the 1996 European Championships these were, without exception, toe-curlingly dreadful. There was a tradition that the England football squad would record an ‘inspiring’ song ahead of each campaign they were involved in. I am too, at least until Tuesday evening (England v Colombia). Helen’s theme of ‘Game’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday was apparently inspired by her enjoyment of the World Cup, on which you can glean my views here.
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