Best pool related songs?

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Hi there,

I´m looking for songs which have pool or billiards as a topic. For example, listen to Jonny Lang´s "Rack ´Em Up": http://www.lastfm.de/music/Jonny+Lang/_/Rack+'em+Up?autostart

Which songs do you know which sing about pool or billiards? I don´t mean music which is good too listen to while playing pool. It has to be pool-related.

I´m very curious about your songs, so please give me your all-time favorite pool songs!

See you
Patrick
 
An Old Irish Ballad:


The Pool Song by Con O' Drisceoil

May the Lord upon high who rules the sky
Look down on our pubs and bars
And the women and men all seated within
Neglecting their pints and their jars
The crack it is bad, the atmosphere sad
Every man has a face like a mule
For all he can do is to grab an old cue
And start playing that game of pool

Well, when I was a boy it was always me joy
To go to the pub each night
There were arguments scraps and killings perhaps
And everyone thought he was right
There were badgers and dogs
And men from the bogs
And young fellows acting the tool
But now there's no crack
For everyman Jack
Has his arse in the air playing pool

To the local ale house after milking the cows
Every customer made his way
And there he would dwell and drink till he fell
While the fiddles and pipes they did play
The jigs and the reels, the rattling of heels
Polkas and slides were the rule
But now there's no chance of a tune or a dance
For everyone's playing the ould pool

Well, this pool you will find is a game designed
For foolish illiterate louts
You push in four bob and you pull an old knob
And a big shower of balls they come out
They're placed on a table and then if you're able
To knock them all into a hole
More money goes in, you start over again
And you lose every bob of your dole

Now in the Irish Free State
All the people are bate
From watching and playing this game
In their necks they have cricks
That no doctor could fix
And their backs and their shoulders are maimed
Their arses protrude in a manner most lewd
From being hoisted aloft in the air
And their eyeballs are sore
And dripping in gore
And they act in a manner most quare

So if you meet a young man
Who's face it is wan
And his eyes have a vacant stare
His jawbone is slack
And his head is thrown back
And he can't tell a cob from a mare
His nostrils dilated, his brow corrugated
His manners like those of a fool
On your shirt you can bet
That you have just met
A man that's gone plain mad from pool

Here's a link to a great performance of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvNjZeiNwSE
 
Mike Massey's POOL HEAVEN fits the bill. I have a copy of bunch a his songs on a tape cassette but not in other formats.

I like his "Saved by the bell (that the Avon lady rang).
 
Pool Hall Richard by the Faces gets my vote every time!!!

http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type...geregion=&guid=&from=&hasrhapx=false&__pcode=

Sweatin' hard, I didn't get a shot
All I did was stand around and get too hot
Knowin' all the people walkin' on my side
Losin' all my money and I'm getting tired
All the women come a-runnin' like he's Getty's son
Makes you kind of jealous but it sure is fun
I don't mind, but he wants my lady too

You know the crowd gets bigger as the word goes 'round
Pool hall king was playin' back in town
Minnesota Fats standin' up at the back
Tryin' to hide himself in a plastic mack
You ought to hear the silence when the kid walks in
His reputation's bigger than gasoline
I don't mind but he's tryin' to fill my lady too
Pool Hall Richard, you're far too wicked we know
Pool Hall Richard, kid you're wicked, we know
You broke more hearts than a gigolo could ever do
With your yellow carnation and your pink satin shoe
You make me jealous but I worship you
One day soon I'm gonna beat you clean
Wipe that smile right off your chin
Everybody gonna drive from miles around
Cuein' up to see me take away your crown
Then you'll never never ever take my lady then

Pool Hall Richard, you're far too wicked we know
Pool Hall Richard, kid you're wicked, we know
You broke more hearts than a gigolo could ever do

Bam goes the brown, that's another one down
Know they play much better when the sun goes down
Bang goes the green, you're so obscene
Your hands are dirty but your scent is clean
Bam goes the blue, lock away your cue
The pool hall king is hustlin' you
Bam goes the 8-ball, didn't see it spin at all
This kid can play, oh yeah

Bam goes the brown, ooh another one down
Know they play much better when the sun goes down
Bang goes the green, you're so obscene
Your hands are dirty, your scent is clean
Damn the pink, one more to sink
Gonna beat you someday 'cause you're makin' me sick
Down on the black, at the back of the pack
Aw, you nearly missed, you ain't so hot

Pool Hall Richard, kid you're wicked, we know
You broke more hearts than a gigolo could ever do
You're breakin' my heart
But you're stealin' my tart
Shut up
 
Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim" is all about the world of pool hustling.
 
Richard Elliot has an entire CD dedicated to his love of the game. I believe it's called Side Pocket. But since it's all jazz without lyrics, I'm not sure if it qualifies.

Steve
 
Hi everybody,

thanks for your songs so far. I forgot to subscribe to this thread and was wondering why nobody is answering...

Thanks also for the previous thread, I didn´t find it using the forum search.

See you
Patrick
 
The video for George Thorogood's Bad To The Bone is pool-themed, and features Willie Mosconi as Bo Diddley's stakehorse. Willie is accompanied by some gorgeous arm-candy who looks like way too much woman for Willie. See it here.
 
Sublime has one. Well they made it twice one version is Punk Rock and one version is linked here you go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdnzH1ixo3I

Screaching Weasle has a punk rock song called it's off their record Boogadaboogadaboogada no one posted it on youtube I have a copy but way to lazy...

I play pool
"cause it is cool."
 
How about the song in the Music Man. It was more like a rap song, I think it was "Trouble in River City" or something like that.
 
I wouldn't necessarily call it the best song, but in APA one night (At our home bar keep in mind) I got matched up with a guy named Doc who is a 7 in APA just like myself. The other team played the song that has the phrase "and the 7's going to die"....needless to say I used this bit of motivation to throttle him 5-1.
 
One of my favorites is out of print now, but it's by Mel McDaniel and it's called "the hustler" or something like that.

It was a cool night in Dallas
At the southside 9-ball Palace
When I stepped in off the sidewalk with my pool cue in my hand.
I said I come for Texas Slim we're gonna play 9-ball me and him
And tonight we're gonna see who's the better man.

Well I heard he used to be the best
and I've already beaten all the rest
from new york to chicago and LA
They say that he's the king of hustlers
an old time pool hall rustler
ain't he the man who used to say:
Don't ever make it look to easy when you break 'em
Get all the money out on the table
Take the time to chalk and aim
Don't take pity on 'em son, just take 'em.
If you can't afford to lose then should never play the game.

Out of shadows dim stepped what once was Texas Slim
He was ripped, worn and ragged and kinda run down at the heels.
He said it's been a long time son. Since I played pool with anyone.
But I'll play one game if that's the way you feel.

Lord he was a pitiful looking man
with a three day growth
and a trembling hand.
He had to take a shot of whiskey to ease the shakes.

I said I come to take you for all you got slim
and it don't matter that it ain't a lot.
Just to show you I'm a sporting man
you can have the break.

Then a smile crossed the face
of every pool shark in that place
as slim took down his custom inlayed
pool cue from it's stand.

He said "I heard for days that you was a comin'
with your pockets full and your young mouth runnin'
and now I'm gonna show you who's the better man."

Then all I heard was the cue ball crack
nine balls fall and slim say rack
and he kept his run till all my money was gone.

Then he looked at me with those eyes of ice
and said son I'm gonna leave you with this advice
to ponder as you hitchhike your way back home.

Don't ever make it look to easy when you break 'em
Get all the money out on the table
Take the time to chalk and aim
Don't take pity on 'em son, just take 'em.
If you can't afford to lose then should never play the game.

Here is the youtube link. Bad audio but cool that it's out there.

~rc
 
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