The Gambler

John:  Five cents

Rick: Call

Jim:  Call

Brad:  I’ll see your five cents and raise you a nickel

Kerry:  I’ll see your 10 cents and raise you a dime

John:  I’m out

Rick:  Me too

Jim:  Fold

Brad:  Call (tossing a dime into the pot)

Kerry:  Straight, King high

Brad:  Flush

Kerry:  D*****, that’s it. I’m out of money.

Brad:  Do you want to borrow another $5?

Kerry:  No.  I owe you $10 and already spent this week’s paycheck.  I’ll have to pay you next week.

Rick:  Kerry do you have any Beatles albums?  We went to the pawnshops earlier today and came up empty.

Kerry:  I only have one.  It is called Yesterday and Today and I bought it about 10 years ago for $3.

Brad:  That is one I don’t have. I am willing to take that in lieu of the $10 dollars you owe me.

Kerry: Done.

Everyone chipped in and gave Kerry one dollar so we could continue our game. We departed friends, Kerry left debt free, and I was the proud owner of a new Beatles album. A few years later I determined that the album cover was actually a second state “butcher cover“.

“We Can Work I Out” is a song by the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. It was released as a “double A-sided” single with “Day Tripper”, the first time both sides of a single were so designated in an initial release. Both songs were recorded during the Rubber Soul sessions.

Yesterday and Today is the ninth Capitol Records album release by the Beatles and the eleventh overall American release. It was originally issued only in the Unitd States and Canada. In the 1970s it was issued in Japan. A later UK release (on Compact Disc) followed in 2014. The album is remembered primarily for the controversy surrounding its original cover image, the “butcher cover” featuring the band dressed in white smocks and covered with decapitated baby dolls and pieces of meat. The album’s title is based on the song “Yesterday”. Early album cover proofs show the word “Yesterday” in quotes.