Songs About Games, Games People Play

[MaVolta]

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 

[BeatleloverKT]

Use me, Bill Withers

[1968Hoya46]

You Don't Mess Around With Jim: Jim Croce  (shooting and stabbing... the dangers of pool hustling).

[BeatleloverKT]

It’s in the way that you use it, Eric Clapton

[foxfire1965]

Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel

[BeatleloverKT]

I fall to pieces, Patsy Cline

Love continues to be the most heartbreaking

game I know…..

[MaVolta]

Computer - Reign (Game Over)  -  Ayreon

This song was written in 1995. It is about computers replacing people. The composer is a fan of science fiction. Fast forward to 2023, and the news about current AI programs creating almost anything you can think of, More science than fiction now. Pretty eeeeerie stuff.😰 

Complete lyrics here: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ayreon/computerreigngameover.html

[1968Hoya46]

Spooky:  Classics IV  (If you decide someday to stop this little game that you are playin'.........)

[EricC227821]

Lazy Poker Blues - Fleetwood Mac

This one seems to be about the games people with words.

[BeatleloverKT]

Love is a battlefield, Pat Benetar

[MaVolta]

Beatin’ The Odds - Molly Hatchet 

[1968Hoya46]

Flowers On The Wall:  Statler Brothers  (Playin' solitaire till dawn, with a deck of 51).

[EricC227821]

Aces High - Iron Maiden

[MaVolta]

You Can’t Beat The House - Mark Knopfler

[MaVolta]

House Of Cards - Scorpions

[1968Hoya46]

Think: Aretha Franklin. (People walking around everyday/Playing games, taking scores)

[BobH07]

(Love Is Like A) Baseball Game:  The Intruders

[BobH07]

Limbo Rock:  Chubby Checker

[BobH07]

Sally Go Round The Roses:  Jaynetts

[MaVolta]

Kill the King - Rainbow

Refers to Queen, King, and Pawn from playing chess.

[1968Hoya46]

Shame Shame:  Magic Lanterns  (Love was the game/Fool was my name)

[BeatleloverKT]

Positively 4th Street, Dylan

[1968Hoya46]

Solitaire:  The Embers  (I know this is a repeat, because it's my repeat, but it's such an under-appreciated [in my opinion] and seldom-heard doo wop tune with surprisingly sophisticated lyrics, so why not repeat it...)

[BeatleloverKT]

Centerfield, John Fogarty

[1968Hoya46]

Break Up To Make Up:  The Stylistics  (First you love me/Then you hate me/That's a game for fools)

[BeatleloverKT]

Found out about you, Gin Blossoms

[1968Hoya46]

Trapped:  Jimmy Cliff; Bruce Springsteen  (Well it seems like I've been playin' the game way too long/And it seems the game I played has made you strong/Well when the game is over, I won't walk out a loser.........But now I'm trapped)

[BeatleloverKT]

The game of love, Mindbenders

[EricC227821]

In memory of our Helium filled visitor from abroad:

Lead Balloon - Joni Mitchell

[BeatleloverKT]

Solitaire, Carpenters

[RossM846371]

There is the hilarious "The Crusher" by the Ramones.  All about wrestling.   It was written by DeeDee and sung by Chris.