Songs about Las Vegas are not close enough.
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Clash - Card Cheat
Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice
OAR - That Was a Crazy Game of Poker [they're only decent song]
― Aaron M (Aaron M), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)
One could argue that any song about love is about gambling (love is no sure thing, and the stakes are high.)
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)
I like this 'un, which is by Jerry Garcia/Robert hunter. I admittedly haven't heard the original, but quite like the cover version Cracker ended their Kerosene Hat album with.
"Loser"
If I had a gun for every ace that I had drawn
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me baby, 'cause I'm moaning low
And you know I'm only in it for the gold
All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars (note 1)
And I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around at the wide world over
But you'll never find another honest man
Last fair deal in the country, sweet Susie (note 2)
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold dollars where your love is baby
Before you let my deal go down
Don't you push me baby, 'cause I'm moaning low
Well I know a little something you won't ever know
Don't you touch hard liquor, just a cup of cold coffee
Gonna get up in the morning and go
Everybody's bragging and drinking that wine
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on an inside straight
Well I got no chance of losing this time
Well I got no chance of losing this time
― ham on rye (ham on rye), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)
I don't think you can much beat "Jack of Hearts," which is about gamblers and gambling both literally and metaphorically.
― Lucas R, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)
I think this thread was just a thinly-veiled reason for someone to mention "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" again. So go ahead...
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Or Dave Edmunds, who cut "Queen of Hearts" (w/Rockpile backing) before Newton?
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)
Have a Lucky Day - Morphine
There's a Place inthe WOrld for a Gambler - Dan Fogelburg
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)