# A Calendar of Dates Mentioned in Popular Music Lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731 "2013-01-29T19:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/21 "2013-01-29T21:33:17Z")
The 7th Day of July, 1777-- King Diamond ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/22 "2013-01-29T22:13:26Z")
“By May the 10th, Richmond had fell” - The Band, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/23 "2013-01-29T22:13:30Z")
Maybe not popular music as the OP had in mind, but a pretty well-known song in folk and bluegrass circles, and done by Donovan and Bob Dylan, is “The Cuckoo.” _The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she warbles as she flies But she never sings cuckoo 'til the fourth day of July_ With numerous variations typical of folk music. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/24 "2013-01-29T22:15:05Z")
October 31st that is my date of birth Beastie Boys, The New Style ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/25 "2013-01-29T22:18:03Z")
“First of May” - Bee Gees ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/26 "2013-01-29T22:42:01Z")
I could have sworn that _The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald_ mentioned the date but I don’t see it in the lyrics. Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/27 "2013-01-29T23:29:26Z")
In the dark of the moon on the 6th of June with a Kenworth haulin’ logs. Convoy, CW McCall. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/28 "2013-01-29T23:38:20Z")
_It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June_ _Convoy_, C.W. McCall ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/29 "2013-01-30T01:26:14Z")
Do parodies count? Because here’s a two-fer: \*Oh buy the corned beef if you must, The pickled herring you can trust, And the lox puts you in orbit AOK. But that big hunk of liverwurst Has been there since October First, And today is the Twenty-Third of May.\* – Allen Sherman, “Shticks Of One Kind And Half A Dozen Of The Other” ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/30 "2013-01-30T01:46:44Z")
Fairfield Four (why are there five of them) cite “the twenty-fifth day of December” in “When was Jesus Born”. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/31 "2013-01-30T01:50:46Z")
Tom Paxton’s “The Subway Song” has “You go in one end in the middle of June and come out on the fourth of July.” ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/32 "2013-01-30T03:43:34Z")
“1915, on Christmas Day” … Christmas, 1915, Celtic Thunder ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/33 "2013-01-30T04:25:28Z")
_1940 Xmas evening with a full moon over town_ – Grateful Dead, “Stagger Lee” ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/34 "2013-01-30T04:36:45Z")
Irish songs: Jan 30: Cruachan - Bloody Sunday: “Remember well the 30th of January” June 23: Spancil Hill. Covered by a lot of people. July 12 (observed date for Battle of the Boyne): Lots, e.g. Loyalist versions (The Sash/12th Day of July) And of course a lot of songs reference the Easter Rising, but it was 7 days so it’s hard to nail down. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/35 "2013-01-30T04:59:36Z")
Rufus Wainwright - [April Fools](http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/45685/#mPQgLsZq47APQsqH.99) > [@](#): > > From February on day by day > But its making a stop on _April First_ (lyric page alludes to, but narrowly avoids mentioning Valentines Day.) Also, the original incarnation of Jefferson Starship had a song called [Hijack](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Hijack-lyrics-Paul-Kantner/55271257A68138E148256BF4000E7C13) that mentions a date… > [@](#): > > You know I remember the 23rd of November ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/36 "2013-01-30T05:05:01Z")
Deodato has a tune named September 13, but it’s an instrumental… ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/37 "2013-01-30T06:54:20Z")
[August 8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upHebizA6TA), by NOFX commemorating the death (on Aug. _9_ :smack: ) of Jerry Garcia. [February 3, death of Buddy Holly](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U), if dates certain but unspecified are allowed. (“February made me shiver … Something touched me deep inside the day the music died”) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/38 "2013-01-30T07:54:22Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > [August 8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upHebizA6TA), by NOFX commemorating the death (on Aug. _9_ :smack: ) of Jerry Garcia. It’s cool. In the song mentioned in post #2, Brad says “April 26, 1992.” ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/39 "2013-01-30T08:39:43Z")
We can check off May 24 thanks to the Go-Betweens song “Bye Bye Pride.” A pretty catchy little band, the Go-Betweens. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/40 "2013-01-30T09:20:02Z")
You won’t be able to squeeze it onto the calendar but… It was April the forty first. Being a quadruple leap year. Wet Dreams - Kip Addotta [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731.md?page=3)