The Name of the Game Was Love

(Cy Coben)



While lookin' through my jewelry drawer

Beneath some papers 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

Hirls 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 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 Mindy.

Janettm Ginam Ingrid or a Bessie

Florance, Fanny surely were fantasy.



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 were 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

Dorism, Pictam, 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...