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When We Play These Games

from The Trees Are Coming by David Breslin

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When we play these games
Oh, when we play these games
Oh, when we play these games
When we play these games
Oh, when we play these games
Oh, when we play these games
I love it
When we play these games.

Little painted people
Ploughing fields or killing bishops
As we choose
Win or lose or draw I’d say
Not having fun’s the real
Way to lose.
I love it
When we play these games.

Cards with kings and queens
Or fields of beans
Or swords and cities
Yet to play;
Ten-faced dice to roll
To fight a troll
And tiles with maps on
Yet to lay.
I love it
When we play these games.

Leaping over men
Once, twice, again
To kick them rudely
Off the board
Raking in the dough
Face down upon the table
Lay your shining hoard
I love it
When we play these games.

Gathered here together
To baptise the local game shop’s
Latest wares
This is friendly war
Who’s keeping score?
Well, yeah, we all are
But who cares?
I love it
When we play these games.

When we play these games….

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from The Trees Are Coming, released October 5, 2015

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Singer-songwriter based in York, UK.

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