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Thread #77786   Message #1392499
Posted By: Jim Dixon
29-Jan-05 - 03:15 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Name of the Game... & My Son John (Paxton
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 2 Tom Paxton Songs
THE NAME OF THE GAME IS STUD was on Tom Paxton's 1965 album "Ain't That News!" That album, combined with the 1964 "Ramblin' Boy", has been reissued as a CD "Ramblin' Boy/Ain't That News!" Elektra/Warner Strategic Marketing #73565, 2001. I transcribed this from a sound sample:

Well, late last night in the Kettle of Fish, I was havin' a glass of beer,
When up comes a rounder by the name of Sam, and [or "ain't"?] lately been seen around here.
He gives me a howdy and he buys me a drink and he calls me by my name,
Says, "Some of the boys are just a-waitin' upstairs. Would you like to have a poker game?"

They were four or five fellers 'round the table upstairs. The smoke was thick as sin.
They took my coat and they pulled up a chair and they proceeded to deal me in....