Heh, just typed that as well.

Should be noted that this was a cover and that Kenny did not write these lyrics.

@@kennet7837 yeah Don Schlitz wrote it, but his version isn't as good as Kenny Rogers who actually made this song famous

Also worth noting is Don Schiltz wrote this with Kenny Rogers in mind... And submitted the song to Rogers people.. but it never made it up the good chain far enough for Rogers to hear it. Don released it himself. Rogers producer Larry Butler heard it on the radio and asked Rogers if he had heard the song. He had. After no one else charted with a major hit version, Rogers cut it! Don Schiltz himself considers Rogers version the definitive one!

Cards is like a marriage, if you don't have a good partner you better have a great hand. 😁

True

Yep play the cards your born with, I know a guy who has cerebral palsy, he told me one of the ways how he plays the cards he was dealt. He carries a whole pocket of small change. When he goes to pay for something he counts it out SLOWLY, coin by coin, and he dials up the palsy to the max (his words) usually the cashier gets impatient and annoyed with him half way through and just takes what cash that's on the counter and tells him that's ok your close enough. Way to play your cards! Before you all comment that its wrong for him to use his disability to take advantage of people, well my response; enough people use his disability as a reason to treat him "less than" so use the cards you were dealt and play em the best way you can.

It astonishes me how many of the "react to music" people had this go directly over their heads. It's always seemed so obvious to me (that it was a metaphor about life). "I can see you're out of aces." Hell, I think we've all felt like we were out of aces at one point.

@Michael Harvey I think what's meant here is to focus on what you're doing and take stock of what worked and what didn't later on.

Another life lesson in there is how the key to survival is knowing what to throw away and what to keep.

@@ohauss i think it means that don't count the money yet bc you can still lose it. like don't count your chickens until they hatch type of thing.

Yess same his music I grew up around

at least it was 🎵 in his sleep 🎶

@@eagle1onoteagle10 hope we all have the luck of dying in our sleep!

@@100EmotionalDamage I mean thanks for the wish lol 🧡😶‍🌫️

brownie1341 Pretty much non of his First Edition songs, get exhausted 🤗👍 They were fantastic. Whatever he did, he did really well.

He had a lot of songs that do not grow old. I'm 53 and I feel lucky to have grown old listening to the great Kenny Rogers!

I've been asking all of the for that one too.

I saw him in AC in the 90s, not just a great music show but he's a great talker. Had the crowd laughing all night between songs.

That's my favorite, the gambler was always close second. Have you seen the movie Six pack? The song was off of that. It's a fun movie with Kenny Rogers, Diane Lane.

@@lynncantrell5502 I may have seen it once on cable, but my middle age memory is failing me, lol. But I did know it was from SIX PACK

Somewhere in the darkness, Kenny Rogers he broke even. And he did, but not before leaving us ALL an "ace that we can keep". Good bye you wonderful singer.

isnt that fitting rather than ironic?

@@stryyker9 Ironic in that he didn't know he would die that way when he sang it. Fitting as well.

You mean, poetically. Ironically would imply an outcome opposite to, and in mockery of, the expected result.

@@dee_pendable1 ah, i see. sorry.

Or Town Without Pity.