Hank Snow - The Name Of The Game Was Love Lyrics

Written by Cy Coben

Recorded by Hank Snow



While looking through my jewelry drawer

Beneath some paper, there I saw

An address book I'd kept throughout the years

It listed all the girls on it

Friends, my list sure has grown

Each name brings back the laughter and the tears

There were girls that I'd romance with

Girls that I had dance with

Some whose face that I just can't recall

There were girls I kissed and lied to

Some I couldn't, and though I tried to

The name of the game was love

And I played it with them all

There was Mary, Martha, Diana, Eva, Josie

Hannah, Anna, Sally, Beth and Rosie

Bonnie, Connie, Susan and Cindy

You get Claudette, Emma and a Minsy

Janet, Gina, Ingrid or a Bessie

Florance, Fanny, surely gonna test us

Francie, Nora, Alice, even Dolly

Gertie, Gretchen, Carmelita and Molly

Girls of every nation, each one a new temptation

They were great, I sure had a ball

They are girls that I had courted

Girls whose marriage plans I hoarded

The name of the game was love

And I played it with them all

There was Betty, Ann, Carol and Yuanita

Cora, Dora, Grace and Rosilita

Mory, Margie, Lisa, Katie

Dottie, Lottie, Lynn and a Sadie

Henrietta, Mabel, Jane and a Alice

Daisy, Maizie, Mona and Cecilia

Lois, Liza, Laura and Leona

Vida, Vee, Louisa and Ramona

Penny, Janice, Silvia, Elmira

Etta, Gretta, Louise or Mira

Merle and Perle, and Leorial and Denise

Doris, Picta, Julia and Amy

Frances, Flora, Dontie, even Trudy

Barbara, Ethel, Ellen is a beauty

Katie, Camden and Athenalina

Georgia, Clara, Alba and Ema

Iris, Elise, Dorothy and Hilda

Olga, Donna, Lulu, Bella, Gilda

Eunice, Phoebe, Ida and a Eda

And I loved them all

And I loved them all