Life is But a Game of Cards

DESCRIPTION: "Life is but a game of cards, which each one has to learn: Each shuffles, cuts, and deals a pack... Some hold a card quite full of trumps, while others none can show." Some succeed in love when hearts are trumps; others succeed or fail in other ways
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (Shay-BarroomBallads/PiousFriendsDrunkenCompanions)
KEYWORDS: cards nonballad
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Shay-BarroomBallads/PiousFriendsDrunkenCompanions, pp. 147-148, "Life is But a Game of Cards" (1 text)
Roud #9540
ALTERNATE TITLES:
A Game of Life
Pack of Cards
NOTES [60 words]: Dime-Song-Book #30, p. 54, has a song "Trumps," beginning
There's dozens of amusing games
In which we all indulge.
They're known by many different names,
A few I'll here divulge,
We've eucher, ball, croquet, and whist,
Foot-racing, running, jumps;
But the best of games, I must insist,
Is love where hearts are trumps.
Not the same, but clearly the same idea. - RBW
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