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I came across "The Game of Cards" in Songs and Dances of Englandby Liz Thomson. It has nice kind of chocolate box first line of
   "As I was a-walking one mid-summer's morning...."
 evoking a very English pastoral scene a few centuries ago set perfectly with a light-hearted tune. It's of boy meets girl. Boy chats girl up. Girl acquiesces and by the fourth verse they sit down to a nice game of cards. How quaint and so very English!
Actually I don't believe a word of it and I suspect that Liz Thomson has been sanitising again.

"The Game of Cards" has been recorded by:
CD tracks/info The Silly Sisters on "Silly Sisters" amazon.com amazon.co.uk amazon.de amazon.fr amazon.ca