# Songs about card games
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-card-games/438610
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 21, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-card-games/438610 "2008-02-21T20:16:31Z")
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### Author:  [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-card-games/438610/41 "2008-02-23T00:59:22Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-]
_Dealin’ card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain’t no one keepin’ score._
**The City of New Orleans** - Arlo Guthrie
[/QUOTE]
Steve Goodman.
> [@robardin](#):
>
> Other than mention of specific cards without a game context, nearly all the songs so far seem to be about poker, with a couple of one-line or title references to Blackjack (“twenty-one”).
>
> What, nobody ever sings about playing Canasta, Gin Rummy, Cribbage or Bridge?
See above quote. Don’t know what it is, but poker doesn’t have points.
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-card-games/438610/42 "2008-02-23T01:02:22Z")
[Only Solitaire](http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/jethro_tull/only_solitaire.html) - Jethro Tull
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