# A List of "Answer" Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116 "2010-05-20T12:30:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/1 "2010-05-20T12:30:23Z")
I was listening to the oldies station, and I heard the song “Dawn of Correction” which is an “answer song” to the song “Eve of Destruction” So I thought it might be intersting to see if we all could make a list of songs / answer songs _The Eve of Destruction_ (Barry McGuire) _The Dawn of Correction_ (The Spokesmen) \*Billie Jean \*(Michael Jackson) \*Superstar \*(Lydia Murdock) And of course Leslie Gore who answered herself 🙂 _It’s My Party_ (Lesley Gore) _Judy’s Turn To Cry_ (Lesley Gore) ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/2 "2010-05-20T12:33:35Z")
Neil Young’s “Southern Man” answered by Lynrd Skynrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” ---
**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:** [May 20, 2010, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/3 "2010-05-20T12:37:14Z")
Both of which were answered by Warren Zevon’s “Play it All Night Long.” Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee” answered by The Youngblood’s “Hippie from Olema” ("We still take in strangers if they’re haggard) and Kinky Friedman’s “Asshole from El Paso.” ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/4 "2010-05-20T12:38:47Z")
Irving Berlin “God Bless America” answered by Pete Seeger “This Land Is Your Land” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/5 "2010-05-20T12:52:18Z")
“Stand by Me” by Ben E. King and “I’ll Be There” by Damita Jo ---
**Author:** ![Negative\_Lite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Negative\_Lite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Negative_Lite)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/6 "2010-05-20T12:58:25Z")
The Roxanne Wars! U.T.F.O. [Roxanne, Roxanne](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOTp3-jEMjQ&a=UCW7mG-MwsU&playnext_from=ML) vs. Roxanne Shante [Roxanne’s Revenge](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex5qXs5Ndws&feature=related) and The Real Roxanne [The Real Roxanne](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eWqVVDXhp8&feature=related) plus about a billion other answer jams. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/7 "2010-05-20T13:03:29Z")
Who’ll Stop the Rain? by Creedence Clearwater Revival Rain King by Counting Crows ---
**Author:** ![Negative\_Lite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Negative\_Lite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Negative_Lite)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/8 "2010-05-20T13:11:00Z")
Also All You Need Is Love - Beatles answered by Oh No! I Don’t Believe It - Mothers of Invention ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/9 "2010-05-20T13:13:32Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > BothMerle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee” answered by > The Youngblood’s “Hippie from Olema” ("We still take in strangers if they’re haggard) and > Kinky Friedman’s “Asshole from El Paso.” As well as Pure Prairie League’s “I’ll Fix Your Flat Tire, Merle” ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/10 "2010-05-20T13:19:59Z")
He’ll Have to Go – Jim Reeves He’ll Have to Stay – Jeannie Black Last Date – Floyd Cramer My Last Date with You – Skeeter Davis Woman to Woman – Shirley Brown From His Woman to You – Barbara Mason Big Bad John – Jimmy Dean Small Sad Sam – Phil McLain (technically a parody, not an answer song) ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/11 "2010-05-20T13:24:10Z")
George Thorogood: If you don’t start drinkin’, I’m gonna leave! George Thorogood:I drink alone; you talk too much. … AC/DC: Have a drink on me. George Thorogood: One scotch, one whiskey, and one beer. AC/DC: Have **A** drink on me! ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/12 "2010-05-20T13:25:56Z")
The El Dorados did a song and a prequel: _Bim-Bam-Boom_-Some guy’s girlfriend (mistress?) comes banging on his back door at midnight. _At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)_–She comes _back_ only now she’s banging on the front door. (they recorded them in the other order) There was also an “Answer” song by some woman (I keep thinking the song is “Annie’s Answer”, but it’s _not_) explaining the woman’s POV and explaining that if he wasn’t a jerk, she wouldn’t be banging on his back door. There was also an “Answer” song by some woman (I keep thinking the song is “Annie’s Answer”, but it’s _not_) explaining the woman’s POV. There’s also Neil Sedaka’s “Oh Carol” to which Carole King responded with “Oh Neil”. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/13 "2010-05-20T13:45:41Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Irving Berlin “God Bless America” answered by > Pete Seeger “This Land Is Your Land” Huh? How is this an answer song? What am I missing here? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/14 "2010-05-20T13:49:44Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > George Thorogood: One scotch, one whiskey, and one beer. Do you mean One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer? Which was written by John Lee Hooker, I think. I’ve had a bartender poor me shots of bourbon and scotch with a beer chaser. Horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/15 "2010-05-20T13:59:37Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Huh? How is this an answer song? What am I missing here? 😕 Well, first it’s Woody Guthrie, but aside from that (going off memory). . . The original lyrics were much more cynical, and instead of “This land was made for you and me” they were “God blessed America for me” or something like that. The rest of the song was about hard times, with the refrain “[Oh, year]God [really] blessed America for me.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/16 "2010-05-20T14:05:18Z")
Some of the responses are more parodies than responses. Like: Leader of The Pack Leader of The Laundromat However: My Girl - The Temptations My Guy - Mary Wells Under The Boardwalk - The Drifters Up On The Roof - Also by The Drifters Peggy Sue and Peggy Sue Got Married - both by Buddy Holly ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/17 "2010-05-20T14:11:09Z")
The Heartbeats’ “You’re a Thousand Miles Away,” was answered by Shep and the Limelites’ “Daddy’s Home.” Kind of a situation where the artist answers himself, since James (“Shep”) Sheppard was in both bands. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/18 "2010-05-20T14:16:52Z")
No Scrubs by TLC No Pidgeons by Sporty Thieves ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/19 "2010-05-20T14:17:36Z")
**Liz Phair** claims that her “Exile in Guyville” album is a song for song answer to **The Rolling Stones’** “Exile on Mainstreet.” Personally I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116/20 "2010-05-20T14:18:58Z")
“Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” on Chicago’s debut album. Later answered by a song on Chicago’s second album … “25 or 6 to 4”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-list-of-answer-songs/540116.md?page=2)