Suggest a song about gambling.....

[Psychonaut]

Megadeth - My Last Words
Annihilator - 21

 

[Groucho]

No one has mentioned Lonnie Donegan - Gambling Man

 

[Hi-ASL]

It's not about gambling as such, but it does mention a rather unfortunate card game and... it's the greatest fucking country song ever:



Fucking beautiful.

 

[Groucho]

Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price

 

[Blagsta]

Max Romeo & The Upsetters - Norman the Gambler

 

[Pie 1]

Elbow - The Fix.

 

[Sabu]

Not cards but Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat

 

[Dr. Furface]

Hi Roller - Little Feat

 

[dessiato]

House of the rising sun- Bob Dylan's 1962 version obviously

What about the 1948 Leadbelly version? That's cool.

 

[Maggot]

I thought House of the rising sun was about a brothel.

Camptown Races -

 

[exosculate]

some excellent selections - any more??? - compilation not finished yet

 

[og ogilby]

Roving Gambler. I think the Everly Brother sang it.

Dyin' Crapshooters Blues by Blind Willie McTell. Fookin great song, more about the death of a gambler than gambling though.

 

[paulhackett]

kc and the sunshine band - queen of clubs?

chess - the musical (never heard it mind)?

 

[exosculate]

House Of The Rising Sun - the Be Good Tanyas version
The Card Cheat - The Clash
Cemetery Poker - Tom Waits
Bottle Of Smoke - The Pogues.

Hi Oranges

How are you me ol china?

 

[Magic Sam]

The Alman brothers- Gambling man
Bessie Smith- Dying gamblers blues
Doctor Clayton- Roaming gambler
Blind Lemon Jefferson- Jack o diamonds
Robert Johnson- Little queen of spades
Lil Brown & Will Brown- Three card monte blues
Mercy Dee walton- five card hand
Black Ace- I am the black ace
anything by the aces.

 

[Kaka Tim]

To be pedantic - in the original 'house of the rising sun' the protaganist is female and the song is about prostitution. I think its like that in the Woody Guthrie version.

 

[Yetman]

Revered & The Makers - The Bandit

 

[dream_girl]

Bingo Masters Break Out - the Fall

 

[dream_girl]

Home Sweet Home - Peter Gabriel

"When the insurance money came through,
It seemed dirty, didn't know what to do.
Took out the cash, went down to the casino,
Down on the wheel on a double,
And I won, yes I won, like I never won before.
Bought myself a country house with an antique carved oak door."

 

[girasol]

Elbow - The Fix.

I was going to suggest that

 

[Y_I_Otter]

Duncan and Brady has been done by Leadbelly, Dylan, the Dead and a zillion 60s folkies.