# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/21 "2008-02-29T18:13:58Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say **(_Ho Ho Ho!_)** [/QUOTE] You forgot that one! Makes me wonder what the genesis of that was. Big, adult concert memes I can see, but how the heck do little kids around the country absorb that one?!? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/22 "2008-02-29T18:20:38Z")
[QUOTE=Stringer] 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: [/quote] You just reminded me of a similar tradition at the nerd camps I went to as a youth, where I first heard this song (and learned to hate it). And every social event we had ended with American Pie. After song slowed down near the end and McLean sang “This’ll be the day that I die,” as the song started picked up speed again, the group would add “LIVE LIVE DIE DIE SEX SEX MORE MORE!” It always seemed like nonsense to me. Anyway, I think the “sex” part bothered somebody in charge and they tried to ban this chant. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/23 "2008-02-29T18:23:12Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] 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 \*\* (_the big fat guy_)\*\* 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… [/QUOTE] We also used the “like George Washington” ---
**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, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/24 "2008-02-29T18:37:01Z")
“Pass it On” is a song I’ve sung at both Girl Scout events and in church. The third verse has a line that goes “So I’ll shout it from the Mountain top” at which point the audience inserts either “Hey, World!” or “Praise God” ---
**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, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/25 "2008-02-29T18:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=Drain Bead] “Sweet Caroline” is pretty notorious for sing-alongs around here. [/QUOTE] “DUHN-DUHN-DUUUUHN!” > [@ArizonaTeach](#): > > Makes me wonder what the genesis of that was. Big, adult concert memes I can see, but how the heck do little kids around the country absorb that one?!? Well, how do things like “Great Big Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts” and “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” get spread so far and wide? It’s actually a recognized phenomenon in the academic study of folklore, IIRC. And, as you’ve seen just with the responses to my posting of the “canon” form of the song from the region I grew up in, there are differences with region, as with most folklore. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/26 "2008-02-29T18:46:16Z")
In the Barenaked Ladies song “Pinch Me”, there are two lines that go: “I could hide out under there” (slight pause) “I just made you say underwear” So obviously when the song is done live, the audience screams “under where?” and then we all giggle. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/27 "2008-02-29T18:47:22Z")
Everyone\* knows it’s: \*Join in any reinder games (like football) \* Pinocchio? Monopoly? How on earth are you supposed to shout those out, as a group, in the normal interval between lines, without it all turning to mush? Sheesh. - well, apparently not everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/28 "2008-02-29T18:48:13Z")
The variations I learned (other than those already mentioned: Like Dumbo, ho-ho-ho) are in bold: Rudolph with your nose so bright won’t you guide my sleigh tonight? ( **Sure!** ) Then all the reindeer loved him (_loved him!_) and they shouted out with glee ( **HOO-RAY!!** ) Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (_reindeer_) You’ll go down in history ( **like Lincoln!** )! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/29 "2008-02-29T18:51:47Z")
[QUOTE=TWDuke] Pinocchio? Monopoly? How on earth are you supposed to shout those out, as a group, in the normal interval between lines, without it all turning to mush? Sheesh. [/QUOTE] It’s not a very fast song. There’s enough time to count “2, 3, 4” between the lyrics and that’s enough to say something like “Like Monopoly!” ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/30 "2008-02-29T18:59:09Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] In the Barenaked Ladies song “Pinch Me”, there are two lines that go: “I could hide out under there” (slight pause) “I just made you say underwear” So obviously when the song is done live, the audience screams “under where?” and then we all giggle. [/QUOTE] Do we still hurl Kraft Dinner at them too, or has that passed? I haven’t seen them in a few years ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/31 "2008-02-29T19:07:13Z")
Most of the time, the live version of _Screaming Infidelities_ by Dashboard Confessional ends with the audience trailing off “your hair is everywhere…” multiple times until Chris steps away from the mic (and once or twice after that.) The album version I’m most familiar with ends with just a slow version of the chorus. Since the audience sings half the songs anyway I don’t think Chris could stop us from singing it like we do 🙂 ---
**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, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/32 "2008-02-29T19:10:27Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] In the Barenaked Ladies song “Pinch Me”, there are two lines that go: “I could hide out under there” (slight pause) “I just made you say underwear” So obviously when the song is done live, the audience screams “under where?” and then we all giggle. [/QUOTE] Heh…I don’t think **supervenusfreak** had ever actually clearly heard the lyrics in that part of the song until we heard it in a quiet hotel room while watching their episode of “Private Sessions” on TV last year, because he did the kind of surprise snerk-laugh you do when you finally figure out a joke that’s been passing you right by for a while. ---
**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, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/33 "2008-02-29T19:16:07Z")
[QUOTE=Eureka] “Pass it On” is a song I’ve sung at both Girl Scout events and in church. The third verse has a line that goes “So I’ll shout it from the Mountain top” at which point the audience inserts either “Hey, World!” or “Praise God” [/QUOTE] I had forgotten all about that. ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/34 "2008-02-29T19:35:02Z")
[QUOTE=Drain Bead] “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. [/QUOTE] My friend’s brother always quips “loose wheel” in lieu of “Lucille”. And who can forget the ZZ Top classic “Every girl’s crazy about a cross-dressed man.” And Depeche Mode’s People are People…“I can’t understand..what…makes a man _date_ another man.” This usually led to snorting beer through your nose when the refrain was followed by the dramtic two crashes and following pleaful “Help me understand…” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/35 "2008-02-29T19:56:49Z")
At **Ben Folds/Ben Folds Five** concerts: During the into to “Underground” (which is different than the radio edit), the singer sings “I was never cool in school/I’m sure you don’t remember me” “ **Who the fuck are you?** ” When Ben started touring by himself w/o much of a backup band, he started instructing the audience on how to be the horns on “Army” and the harmony on “Regrets.” There’s some audience clapping in, I think, “Zak and Sara” Also, anywhere in Ohio (hopefully), one is expected to stand up and spell “O-H-I-O” with one’s arms while saying “O-H-I-O” during “Louie, Louie.” ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/36 "2008-02-29T21:21:28Z")
[QUOTE=An Gadaí] Audience parts in bold. _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] I was in a pub in Galway when the band played _FoA_ and the crowd went nuts with the participation parts. As a visiting American, I was quite perplexed until some inebriated locals explained it to me (and then spilled beer on my wife). 😃 Love that song. Now I want to book some tickets. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/37 "2008-02-29T21:24:43Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] “And I’ll never get used to not living next door to Alice.” Audience: “Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?” [/QUOTE] I came in for that one. I don’t know who sings the actual song, but I know all of the rejoinders. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637/38 "2008-02-29T21:29:54Z")
Not sure if this counts, but when Barenaked Ladies sing _If I Had a Million Dollars_, the crowd used to throw Kraft Dinner onto the stage at the line: _We wouldn’t have to eat Kraft Dinner_ A friend of mine won front row tickets to a BNL concert ages ago and took me along. When that line came a huge slew of shit was thrown onto the stage, and I got beaned in the shoulder by a box of Kraft Mac n’ Cheese from some weak thrower in the balcony. Still have that (dented) box, in fact. I’m not really a big BNL fan, but it’s the only concert I’ve ever been in the front row for and it’s a fun memory. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audience-add-ons-to-songs/439637.md?page=1)