Best Gambling songs
04-19-05, 01:37 AM
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Best Gambling songs
Trying to come up with a good CD to make of the best gambling songs. I have a few already but thought the forum would have some hidden gems.
I also thought it'd be more interesting to make a mellower country/other CD and a rockin one.
Rockin Songs-
The Clash - The Card Cheat
ACDC - The Jack
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Mike Ness - Roving Gambler
Iron Maiden - Aces High (although not about gambling)
The Clash - Three Card Trick
Country/Other
Sinatra - Luck Be a Lady Tonight
Ray Charles - Blackjack
Ray Charles - The Cincinnati Kid
Dylan - House of the Rising Sun
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Casino Queen - Wilco
Buckwheat Zydeco - Five Card Stud
I also thought it'd be more interesting to make a mellower country/other CD and a rockin one.
Rockin Songs-
The Clash - The Card Cheat
ACDC - The Jack
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Mike Ness - Roving Gambler
Iron Maiden - Aces High (although not about gambling)
The Clash - Three Card Trick
Country/Other
Sinatra - Luck Be a Lady Tonight
Ray Charles - Blackjack
Ray Charles - The Cincinnati Kid
Dylan - House of the Rising Sun
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
Casino Queen - Wilco
Buckwheat Zydeco - Five Card Stud
you've reversed Wilco with the song they sing. The rest are listed as band - song.
04-19-05, 02:38 PM
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Bob Seger - Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
04-19-05, 05:18 PM
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Bob Seger - Still The Same
Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas
Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas
04-19-05, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Turd Ferguson
"House of the Rising Sun" is about a whorehouse.
04-20-05, 06:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Lloyd Dobbler
I have a few already but thought the forum would have some hidden gems.
The Breakfast - Doughboy
Wait for me I want to try my luck
You know my currency it’s called a buck
Hit me I want to know if it’s my money day
In a sense, I never thought too big
Cause I’ll never make as much as I bid
Hit me anyway, maybe my money day
I always wondered who predicts
If I can touch the cards with tricks
Jonesing the rush I might be sick
If I can’t get my doughboy fix
I cough up dough and let it roll
Some days it smooth, some nights not at all
Maybe the weekends are more my money days
Big amounts it always looks better
Break even or bust it was money well spent-uh
Maybe my luck will make it a money day
Most days I don’t have a dime
If I don’t play I won’t know its time
Doughboy fix is in my spine
Is lady luck now on my side?
I hope each day is a money day
You never know how long luck will stay
No more bets, as I sit at the table
Been here for hours and will do more if I’m able
I can’t believe today is my money day
Let it ride, the only way to make the most
I put it all down, now I'm on the whipping post
This is the play to show me my money day
Can you believe I won the cash?
If I didn’t I'd say dough and crash
But now I’m going to throw a bash
Spend that money like a doughboy fast
I hope each day is a money day
You never know how long luck will stay
You know my currency it’s called a buck
Hit me I want to know if it’s my money day
In a sense, I never thought too big
Cause I’ll never make as much as I bid
Hit me anyway, maybe my money day
I always wondered who predicts
If I can touch the cards with tricks
Jonesing the rush I might be sick
If I can’t get my doughboy fix
I cough up dough and let it roll
Some days it smooth, some nights not at all
Maybe the weekends are more my money days
Big amounts it always looks better
Break even or bust it was money well spent-uh
Maybe my luck will make it a money day
Most days I don’t have a dime
If I don’t play I won’t know its time
Doughboy fix is in my spine
Is lady luck now on my side?
I hope each day is a money day
You never know how long luck will stay
No more bets, as I sit at the table
Been here for hours and will do more if I’m able
I can’t believe today is my money day
Let it ride, the only way to make the most
I put it all down, now I'm on the whipping post
This is the play to show me my money day
Can you believe I won the cash?
If I didn’t I'd say dough and crash
But now I’m going to throw a bash
Spend that money like a doughboy fast
I hope each day is a money day
You never know how long luck will stay
04-20-05, 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Turd Ferguson
"House of the Rising Sun" is about a whorehouse.
down in New Orleans."
"Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk... "
04-20-05, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by majorjoe23
"My father was a gamblin' man,
down in New Orleans."
"Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk... "
down in New Orleans."
"Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk... "
04-20-05, 12:56 PM
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to prove you wrong or anything. I think the song is ambiguous enough that the House of the Rising Sun could be either a whore house of a gambling den.
04-20-05, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by majorjoe23
Sorry, I wasn't trying to prove you wrong or anything. I think the song is ambiguous enough that the House of the Rising Sun could be either a whore house of a gambling den.
04-20-05, 03:12 PM
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Phil Harris --Darktown Poker Club
It doesn't just mention gambling, it is about a poker game.
Bill Jackson was a poor old dub
Who joined the Darktown Poker Club
But cursed the day he told them he would join
His money used to go like it had wings
If he yelled queens, someone had kings
And each night he would contribute all his coin
Then he said Im gonna play em tight tonight
He said therell be no bobtail flushes make me bite
Cause when I gets in them my hands will be a peach
And he played them tight but lost his pile
And Bill got peevish after a while... and it continues
It doesn't just mention gambling, it is about a poker game.
Bill Jackson was a poor old dub
Who joined the Darktown Poker Club
But cursed the day he told them he would join
His money used to go like it had wings
If he yelled queens, someone had kings
And each night he would contribute all his coin
Then he said Im gonna play em tight tonight
He said therell be no bobtail flushes make me bite
Cause when I gets in them my hands will be a peach
And he played them tight but lost his pile
And Bill got peevish after a while... and it continues
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Townes van Zandt - Mr. Mudd and Mr Gold, from his album High, Low and in Between.
"Spirit me a game of stud/Stakes unscarred by limitation/Between a man named Gold and a man named Mudd"
He also covered Dylan's "Little Willie the Gambler" on Roadsongs, but Mudd and Gold is much the better song.
"Spirit me a game of stud/Stakes unscarred by limitation/Between a man named Gold and a man named Mudd"
He also covered Dylan's "Little Willie the Gambler" on Roadsongs, but Mudd and Gold is much the better song.
