# Billy Idols version of Mony Mony: Get laid, get fu
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 17, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088 "2007-07-17T04:26:36Z")
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/1 "2007-07-17T04:26:36Z")
cked.
I recall that in the early/mid 80’s whenever they playedd this song in clubs people would chant “_Hey, hey what? Get laid get f_cked\*” or “_Hey motherfu_ker, get laid get fuc_ed_”.
I know it wasn’t just a local thing because I remember this happening not only here in Milwaukee but also in places I was in in Atlanta and Toronto.
Anyone remember this? What’s the origin of it? Where did it start and how did it spread through out the entire country?
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### Author:  [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/2 "2007-07-17T04:37:17Z")
Never heard that, but that is still one of my all-time favorite rockers.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/3 "2007-07-17T04:41:14Z")
The first time I heard it, I was an innocent lad of 12 at a Pistons game with my dad. I asked him what the crowd was yelling. He told me, so I joined in the next time around. He was not amused.
Here’s a thread from another board that talks about this tradition. One guy there claims to have yelled the “Get laid, get fucked” to the Tommy James version back in the 60s. [Link](http://www.gloriousnoise.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=876&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10&sid=bb9f4fde89348e8f95f58003093a882b)
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/4 "2007-07-17T05:08:21Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder]
Here’s a thread from another board that talks about this tradition. One guy there claims to have yelled the “Get laid, get fucked” to the Tommy James version back in the 60s. [Link](http://www.gloriousnoise.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=876&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10&sid=bb9f4fde89348e8f95f58003093a882b)
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Interesting. I wonder if it really dates back to the 60’s version or if that guy is full of it.
If it does it may be much harder to find it’s origin than I thought it would be.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/5 "2007-07-17T05:13:45Z")
[QUOTE=pkbites]
Interesting. I wonder if it really dates back to the 60’s version or if that guy is full of it.
If it does it may be much harder to find it’s origin than I thought it would be.
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That guy couldn’t be lying. He’s on the _Internet!_
🙂
I’ve also wondered about the origins of this, so I’ll be curious if anyone can turn anything up. Unfortunately, I suspect this may be another Kirk Cameron Nipple.
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### Author:  [@Gengis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gengis)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/6 "2007-07-17T05:36:44Z")
We did it in Albany, NY waaaaay back in 1986. And at every party I’ve been to since. It doesn’t have to be the Billy Idol version, either.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/7 "2007-07-17T05:44:16Z")
I heard one a couple weeks ago I hadn’t heard before. When Jimmy Buffet sings, “Searchin’ for my lost shaker of salt”, the crowd chants, “Where’s the salt? Where’s the motherfuckin’ salt?”
The Mony Mony thing … I’d heard it started with the movie, _The Lost Boys_ (I think that was the movie, anyway. I didn’t see it.)
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### Author:  [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/8 "2007-07-17T07:31:39Z")
[There may or may not be an answer in this OLD Thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=271523).
It was too long ago for me to remember if we got a good answer, and I can’t reread it right now. But, it goes onto a second page- so there might be some interesting reading there for you.
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### Author:  [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/9 "2007-07-17T11:07:23Z")
I took part in this tradition about two years ago in a karaoke bar in Vancouver. I’ll bet that it’s still widespread.
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### Author:  [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/10 "2007-07-17T11:45:19Z")
I don’t think the guy is lying about the Tommy James version. Tommy James was basically discovered by a Pittsburgh area disc jockey who was rooting through the cutout bins at a bargain store and discovered Hanky Panky. He played it on his show on a daily basis until it became number 1 in Pittsburgh. He then tried to contact Tommy (I forget his name but I don’t think it is really Tommy james) who was then out of the music business and tried to get him to perform at a dance. james put a band together and appeared and not long after that the record caught on all over the country and a star was born.
There was always some kind of an in-joke kind of thing about Mony, mony that I was never let in on (big Satchel Paige fan - I avoided the social ramble) and I believe this was it.
(The disc jockey - for the many Pittsburghers on this site - was Mad Mike Metro who has since passed away.)
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### Author:  [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/11 "2007-07-17T11:59:46Z")
Just a WAG here, but in this part of the country, “Mony Mony” gets replaced (by the crowd not the singer) with “fuckin horny”. So what do ya do if you’re fuckin horny? Ya get laid.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/12 "2007-07-17T12:34:16Z")
I use the line, _“Mony Mony; ride the baloney pony…”_
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### Author:  [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/13 "2007-07-17T14:47:56Z")
I remember this from the 80s in Erie, PA.
Oddly enough, I was going to ask about this very thing last night but decided to drink wine instead. there is a clear cause-and-effect relationship there, trust me.
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/14 "2007-07-17T14:55:30Z")
In my high school in the mid-80’s this was a regular chant at our monthly school dance, until the administration put the song on every DJ’s “do not play” list.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/15 "2007-07-17T15:32:19Z")
I never heard it and I was in college and out going wild in bars when the Billy Idol version came out. Oh well, another social phenmenon missed!
But I am curious. At what point was the chant yelled? The two hard chords after “Mony Mony” is sung?
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### Author:  [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/16 "2007-07-17T15:47:02Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
I never heard it and I was in college and out going wild in bars when the Billy Idol version came out. Oh well, another social phenmenon missed!
But I am curious. At what point was the chant yelled? The two hard chords after “Mony Mony” is sung?
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If I understand you correctly, yes. From memory, it’s in the verses after lines with the rhythm matching: “Here she comes now sing Mony Mony” _[insert additional lyrics here]_🙂
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/17 "2007-07-17T18:32:26Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry]
I never heard it and I was in college and out going wild in bars when the Billy Idol version came out. Oh well, another social phenmenon missed!
But I am curious. At what point was the chant yelled? The two hard chords after “Mony Mony” is sung?
[/QUOTE]
If you’re at a dance or a bar where this song is played, there is no doubt about where the words are inserted. This is one of those things that seems to have thoroughly invaded the culture with no one really knowing from where.
(Did this in bars in Saskatchewan in the 80’s. Always hated that song.)
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### Author:  [@dannyness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dannyness)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/18 "2007-07-17T18:56:43Z")
I THINK it’s “One & One” by 2 Live Crew.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/19 "2007-07-17T20:43:55Z")
The version I always chanted (possibly picked up in a bar in Texas in 1986, possibly somewhere else sometime earlier) was “Get drunk, get naked, let’s fuck!”
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-idols-version-of-mony-mony-get-laid-get-fu/412088/20 "2007-07-17T21:33:32Z")
At a dance during a ski trip I went on with some college friends of mine (engineering students from The Cooper Union), the shouted overlyrics to _Mony Mony_ were _Hey, stay home read books_. Being as 95% of the engineering school were guys (mostly heterofrustrated).
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