Playing for Keeps Songtext
von Beaver Nelson

If you don′t like me
How you gonna love me?
If you can't stand beside me
How you gonna stand above me?
When I′ve fallen down
And I hit the ground
Are you playing for keeps?
Or are you just playing around?

There's a high road to China
And all roads lead to Rome
But there's no road finer
Than the one that takes me home
They say that′s where the heart is
Mine just goes town to town
Are you staying for keeps?
Or are you just running around?


Didn′t your mama teach you something
About thinking twice before you let the words fall?
Didn't your papa teach you nothing?
If you can′t say something nice to me
Don't say anything at all

There′s brown boys playing horseshoe
There's black boys playing craps
There′s white boys playing eight ball
There's a trumpet that's playing "Taps"
Oh, can you hear the sound
As the sun goes down?
Is he playing for keeps?
Is he just playing around?

If you don′t like me
Well, how you gonna love me?
If you can′t stand beside me
How you gonna stand above me?
When I've fallen down
And I hit the ground
Are you playing for keeps?
Or are you just playing around?