# Audience Add-Ons to Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 29, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637 "2008-02-29T14:14:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/1 "2008-02-29T14:14:46Z")
I’m looking for examples of common audience additions to songs when performed live, or otherwise heard by a group (as in at a club.) Two examples are: Billy Idol’s cover of _Mony Mony_ with the “… get laid, get fucked” chant between verses. Jimmy Buffett’s _Margaritaville_ with the “hang on, hang on, hang on” chant after the lyrics “… That frozen concoction that helps me hang on …” There must be others, what are they? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/2 "2008-02-29T14:24:51Z")
Hugely successful Aussie band _The Angels_ had a big hit with **Am I Ever Going To See Your Face Again?** Whenever they performed the song live, when singer Doc Neeson sang this line the whole audience would respond, **No way, get fucked, fuck off!** According to Neeson the genesis of this was from a DJ at the Mt Isa Blue Light Disco (a youth activity run by the local police), who encouraged the young kids to chant it. [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixZd37bstNI) is an exhibition on Aussie TV 20 years later. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/3 "2008-02-29T14:29:00Z")
[QUOTE=Southern Yankee] Jimmy Buffett’s _Margaritaville_ with the “hang on, hang on, hang on” chant after the lyrics “… That frozen concoction that helps me hang on …” [/QUOTE] I usually hear “…lost shaker of salt” “salt..salt…salt” ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/4 "2008-02-29T14:29:35Z")
Rudolph, the Red Nosed Raindeer ‘Like Monopoly!’ Rocky Horror Picture Show: Everything. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/5 "2008-02-29T14:33:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Rudolph, the Red Nosed Raindeer ‘Like Monopoly!’ I never heard that. At what part of the song? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/6 "2008-02-29T14:36:49Z")
Like Monopoly follows the words “play in any reindeer games” ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/7 "2008-02-29T15:13:57Z")
[QUOTE=Eureka] Like Monopoly follows the words “play in any reindeer games” [/QUOTE] In addition “had a very shiny nose”…“LIKE A LIGHTBULB!” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/8 "2008-02-29T15:59:02Z")
[QUOTE=Southern Yankee] I never heard that. At what part of the song? [/QUOTE] Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (_reindeer_) had a very shiny nose (_like a lightbulb!_) and if you ever saw it (_saw it_) you would even say it glows (_like a lightbulb!_) All of the other reindeer (_reindeer_) used to laugh and call him names (_like Pinocchio!_) they never let poor Rudolph (_Rudolph_) join in any reindeer games (_like Monopoly!_) Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say Rudolph with your nose so bright won’t you guide my sleigh tonight? Then all the reindeer loved him (_loved him!_) and they shouted out with glee (_YIPPEEE!_) Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (_reindeer_) You’ll go down in history (_like Columbus!_)! We’ve been doing it like this as long as I can remember. I STILL do the interjections whenever the song comes on the radio in December. **Supervenusfreak** just looks at me and shakes his head… ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/9 "2008-02-29T16:00:45Z")
Couple of country songs I can think of. Hank Williams Jr. _Family Traditions_ Chorus: they get on me wanna know Hank why do you drink? (audience input: **to get drunk** ) (Hank) why do you roll smoke? (audience input: **to get stoned** ) Why must you live out the songs that you wrote? (audience input: **To get laid, get fucked** ) Another one is by Steve Goodman _YOU NEVER EVEN CALLED ME BY MY NAME_ AND I’LL HANG AROUND AS LONG AS YOU WILL LET ME (audience input: **you bitch, you slut, you whore** ) AND I NEVER MINDED STANDIN’ IN THE RAIN BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO CALL ME DARLIN’, DARLIN’ YOU NEVER EVEN CALLED ME BY MY NAME ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/10 "2008-02-29T16:32:30Z")
**jayjay** has it all wrong. It’s call him names “like Dumbo” and you’ll go down in history “like George Washington”. I still sing it that way, yes. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/11 "2008-02-29T16:33:32Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] **jayjay** has it all wrong. It’s call him names “like Dumbo” and you’ll go down in history “like George Washington”. I still sing it that way, yes. [/QUOTE] Heretic! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/12 "2008-02-29T16:43:11Z")
We always added when Santa came to say (hohoho) and he’ll go down in history like the _Flintstones_. Another song is Seven Drunken Nights where after the band sings “Well I called me wife and I says to her” Men: “Hey wife, you bitch” Women: “Whaddya want you drunken asshole?” ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/13 "2008-02-29T16:48:23Z")
Audience parts in bold. _The Wild Rover_ “Fore it’s no nay never **RISE UP YOUR SKIRTS** ” _The Fields of Athenry_ “Where once we watched the small free birds fly - \*\*oh baby, let the free birds fly \*\*/ Our love was on the wing - **Sinn Féin** / We had dreams and songs to sing - \*\*IRA \*\*/ It’s so lonely round the Fields of Athenry.” ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/14 "2008-02-29T16:51:13Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] Audience parts in bold. _The Wild Rover_ “Fore it’s no nay never **RISE UP YOUR SKIRTS** ” [/QUOTE] My friend always sang somehwere in there, “Sex on the floor!” (I don’t know the song very well, myself) ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/15 "2008-02-29T17:03:16Z")
Not a vocal add-on per se but we’ve made it a habit on the _Wilson Sisters_ Christmas classic **Hey Santa** that when they sing the chorus words of “Hey Santa” we sing along while flipping the bird. ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/16 "2008-02-29T17:10:52Z")
At my college there was a bar that would play American Pie most nights around midnight. There were a few additional lines everyone would add to the chorus: So bye-bye, miss american pie. Drove my chevy to the levee, But the levee was dry. And them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and [BEER!] Singin’, "this’ll be the day that I die. “this’ll be the day that I die.” [DRINKIN BEER WITH MY FUCKED-UP FRIENDS!] ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/17 "2008-02-29T17:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] Audience parts in bold. _The Wild Rover_ “Fore it’s no nay never **RISE UP YOUR SKIRTS** ” _The Fields of Athenry_ “Where once we watched the small free birds fly - \*\*oh baby, let the free birds fly \*\*/ Our love was on the wing - **Sinn Féin** / We had dreams and songs to sing - \*\*IRA \*\*/ It’s so lonely round the Fields of Athenry.” [/QUOTE] _Barrett’s Privateers_ “We’d fire no guns, shed no tears **DRINK MORE BEERS!** ” ---
**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:** [February 29, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/18 "2008-02-29T17:34:18Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] “Fore it’s no nay never **RISE UP YOUR SKIRTS** ” [/QUOTE] We’d sing “Right up your kilt” at that point, but that fact that there it was a proud Scotsman who owned the pub we hung out in probably had something to do with that. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/19 "2008-02-29T17:50:22Z")
“Sweet Caroline” is pretty notorious for sing-alongs around here. Also, “You Picked a Fine Time To Leave Me, Lucille” always gets the “you bitch, you slut, you whore” response. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/20 "2008-02-29T17:57:14Z")
“And I’ll never get used to not living next door to Alice.” Audience: “Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?” A republican version of the Wild Rover: “And it’s no, nay, never…” Audience: “Tiocfaidh ár lá!” “…no nay never no more…” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637.md?page=2)