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Songs About Games, Games People Play

So here's a song topic that I don't recall us having played - Songs about Games. What songs can you think of about games, mentioned or implied, of any sort in the title or lyrics? 

 

So I'll start with this one as sort of a "blanket" title - - -

 

The Games People Play - Joe South 

โ€œWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.โ€ - Jimi Hendrix
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Back in the day, THE SPINNERS  had a song called "Games People Play"; (aka: "They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)". It began with a piano/trumpet lead-in to the vocal which went:

"Can't get no rest, don't know how I work all day.

When will I learn? memories get in the way.

I walk around... can't hear a sound - folks talking loud... but I

Don't see at all. I gotta get away, gotta get away, I don't

Know where to go, it's hopeless so, I guess I'll leave it alone...."

Then comes a second verse, which leads to the Bridge:

"GAMES PEOPLE PLAY, NIGHT OR DAY THEY'RE JUST NOT MATCHIN',

WHAT THEY SHOULD DO, KEEPS ME FEELIN' BLUE,

BEEN DOWN TOO LONG, RIGHT WRONG I JUST CAN'Y STOP IT

SPENDIN' ALL DAY, THINKING JUST OF YOU...."

As you can probably tell, this was one of my favorite songs of all time.  GTT

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Simon Says:  1910 Fruitgum Company.

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Tumbling Dice - Rolling Stones

Mind Games - John Lennon

Pinball Wizard - The Who

Wicked Games - Chris Isaak

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Poker Face, Game of Love, Take me out to the Ball Game! Two of Hearts, , Guessing Games (Hall & Oates), Spitting Games (Snow Patrol)

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games people play - joe south    game of love - santana & others  pinball wizard - the who  centerfield -j fogerty

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Skip a rope - Henson Cargill

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Let's bowl - cast of Grease 2

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Queen of hearts - Juice Newton

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Game of Love by Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T   scrabble

 

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Yesterday:  Beatles (love was such an easy game to play).

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Circle Game, Joni and Judy

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Take Me Out To The Ball Game.

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Big Boy Pete:  The Olympics

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99 Bottles of Beer on The Wall

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game BY FRANK ZAPPA

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Viva Las Vegas BY ELVIS PRESLEY
 
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Take me out to the Ballgame

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The Boxer

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Kenny Rodgers - The Gambler

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Take me out to the Ballgame!

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Charlie Brown: The Coasters (shooting dice in the boyโ€™s gym)

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Iโ€™ve Seen All Good People:  Yes (chess as a metaphor for getting on in life).

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Madame George -- Van Morrison

 

"In a corner playing dominoes in drag, the one and only Madame George ... "

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City Of New Orleans- Steve Goodman; Arlo Guthrie; others (dealing card games with the old men in the club.car, penny a point ainโ€™t no one keeping score).

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Yesss!!!!
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Almost any song by Fleetwood Mac- a group that I love but here goes-

The Chain, Little Lies, Second hand news, Gold dust woman, I donโ€™t want to know- basically the whole Rumours album lol. Genesis is big for them also- In too deep, No reply at all, Thatโ€™s all. Also Dirty deeds done dirt cheap by AC/DC.

And Drive my car by the Beatles. Games adults play have yielded tons of songs!

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Paradise By The Dashboard Light-   Meatloaf (baseball... as a metaphor for โ€œscoringโ€).

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At Seventeen -- Janis Ian

 

"We all play the game, and when we dare to cheat ourselves at solitaire ..."

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Poker Face - Lady GaGa

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