Hank Snow

The Name of the Game Was Love
While looking through my jewelry drawerBeneath some paper, there I sawAn address book I'd kept throughout the yearsIt listed all the girls on itFriends, my list sure has grownEach name brings back the laughter and the tearsThere were girls that I'd romance withGirls that I had dance withSome whose face that I just can't recallThere were girls I kissed and lied toSome I couldn't, and though I tried toThe name of the game was loveAnd I played it with them allThere was Mary, Martha, Diana, Eva, JosieHannah, Anna, Sally, Beth and RosieBonnie, Connie, Susan and CindyYou get Claudette, Emma and a MinsyJanet, Gina, Ingrid or a BessieFlorance, Fanny, surely gonna test usFrancie, Nora, Alice, even DollyGertie, Gretchen, Carmelita and MollyLetras de cancionesGirls of every nation, each one a new temptationThey were great, I sure had a ballThey are girls that I had courtedGirls whose marriage plans I hoardedThe name of the game was loveAnd I played it with them allThere was Betty, Ann, Carol and YuanitaCora, Dora, Grace and RosilitaMory, Margie, Lisa, KatieDottie, Lottie, Lynn and a SadieHenrietta, Mabel, Jane and a AliceDaisy, Maizie, Mona and CeciliaLois, Liza, Laura and LeonaVida, Vee, Louisa and RamonaPenny, Janice, Silvia, ElmiraEtta, Gretta, Louise or MiraMerle and Perle, and Leorial and DeniseDoris, Picta, Julia and AmyFrances, Flora, Dontie, even TrudyBarbara, Ethel, Ellen is a beautyKatie, Camden and AthenalinaGeorgia, Clara, Alba and EmaIris, Elise, Dorothy and HildaOlga, Donna, Lulu, Bella, GildaEunice, Phoebe, Ida and a EdaAnd I loved them allAnd I loved them all From Letras Mania