Songs for Rounders

{{Infobox album

| name = Songs for Rounders

| type = studio

| artist = Hank Thompson

| cover = Songs for Rounders.png

| alt =

| released = 1959

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| genre = Country

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| label = Capitol

| producer = Ken Nelson

| chronology =

| prev_title = Favorite Waltzes

| prev_year = 1959

| next_title = Most of All

| next_year = 1960

| misc =

}}

Songs for Rounders is an album by country music artist Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys. It was released in 1959 by Capitol Records (catalog no. T-1246). Ken Nelson was the producer.{{cite web|title=Hank Thompson And His Brazos Valley Boys - Songs for Rounders|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=December 19, 2020|url=https://www.discogs.com/Hank-Thompson-Songs-For-Rounders/release/3264366}} It was Thompson's first stereo album.

As noted in its liner notes, the album told stories of "tarnished heros ... rounders, bounders, fourflushers and bums ... rolling stones who go through life itching for trouble and finding it."{{cite web|title=Back cover of Songs for Rounders|publisher=Capitol Records|accessdate=December 20, 2020|url=https://www.amazon.com/Songs-Rounders-Hank-Thompson/dp/B006PTL0ZY}} The dark subject matter, including a song about cocaine, was controversial and ground-breaking in the country music world of the late 1950s.

The album was released prior to the establishment of the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in 1964.{{cite book|title=Joel Whitburn's Top Country Albums 1964-1997|publisher=Record Research Inc.|year=1997|page=174|isbn=0898201241}}

AllMusic gave the album a rating of five stars.{{cite web|title=Songs for Rounders|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=December 18, 2020|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-for-rounders-mw0000966181}} Reviewer Bruce Eder called it "maybe Thomposon's best LP."