Songs About Poker
Posted on May 9, 2008
Filed Under Pocker
By far the most famous of songs about poker is ‘The Gambler’ by Kenny Rogers, the classic lines of ‘know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, know when to run’ are well known and are pretty good advice to those playing the game, there have been other songs too though which, although not being entirely about poker certainly have a gambling theme to them. A very well known one which springs to mind is ‘House of the Rising sun’ by The Animals, and has a rather sombre theme to it, talking about the allure and dangers of gambling, but it is a great song nonetheless. Also the high tempo ‘Ace of Spades’ by Motorhead is another classic from later years, the carefree sentiment of the song summed up in the lines ‘win some lose some it’s all the same to me?.
Aside from these well known songs there have been a few blues songs which aren’t quite so familiar to most, but include gambling lyrics ‘Blues for Gamblers’ by Lightning Hopkins, to name one. Whichever the genre of music, gambling has always been used to symbolise the twists and turns of love or life and the general unpredictability of the world which surrounds us, and I have to say that I can relate to the feeling that you never quite know what life might throw at you next, just as a deck of cards acts, always making or breaking a poker hand, seemingly on a whim.
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