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Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say (Ho Ho Ho!)
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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?!?
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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:
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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.
[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…
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We also used the “like George Washington”
“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=Drain Bead]
“Sweet Caroline” is pretty notorious for sing-alongs around here.
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“DUHN-DUHN-DUUUUHN!”
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.
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.
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.
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!)!
[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.
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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!”
[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.
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Do we still hurl Kraft Dinner at them too, or has that passed? I haven’t seen them in a few years 
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 
[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.
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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.
[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”
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I had forgotten all about that.
[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.
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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…”
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.”
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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.”
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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.
[QUOTE=jjimm]
“And I’ll never get used to not living next door to Alice.”
Audience: “Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?”
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I came in for that one. I don’t know who sings the actual song, but I know all of the rejoinders.
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.