# Breaking up... it's easy to do
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** music
**Created:** [April 23, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401 "2025-04-23T14:41:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/1 "2025-04-23T14:41:38Z")
Continuing this thread hijack in a more appropriate place
> [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4856):
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> Good idea, I’m all for it.
with this Violent Femmes track
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WNpEQ_3Vfg)
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/2 "2025-04-23T14:53:28Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/b-tAiOVMYFY/maxresdefault.jpg "It Was a Shit Show (Explicit) - feat. Santino Fontana - "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-tAiOVMYFY)
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/3 "2025-04-23T14:53:50Z")
I already mentioned my fondness for breakup songs by Dylan, and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” and “Idiot Wind” have been mentioned as breakup songs that really sting, but I also have a soft spot for a more melancholic approach. So here’s one of my favorites, Doug Sahm’s “Give Back The Key To My Heart”. Original version and the great cover by Uncle Tupelo with Doug himself singing the second verse.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaoUi7_f-s)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-bS_iUKrE0)
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/4 "2025-04-23T14:58:34Z")
Best:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiLKTKd5pgs)
Worst:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jta56wBl7SM)
Composed by a condescending, bitter, and un-self aware Cat Stevens after breaking up with Patti D’Arbanville; a Warhol Factory alumnus whom modern audiences might recognize as Loraine from the Sopranos and Bobby Axelrod’s mother from Billions.
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/5 "2025-04-23T15:03:03Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> Patti D’Arbanville; a Warhol Factory alumnus whom modern audiences might recognize as Loraine from the Sopranos and Bobby Axelrod’s mother from Billions.
Or slightly older audiences as George Harrison’s wife which his best friend Eric Clapton stole from him after having sung about her on “Layla” and “Have You Ever Loved A Woman” (and later, “Wonderful Tonight”.) She must be one of the most successful muses in Rock, if you just count the songs written and sung about her.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/6 "2025-04-23T15:06:24Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> George Harrison’s wife which his best friend Eric Clapton stole from him
Nope, that was a different Patti.
[Pattie Boyd - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattie_Boyd)
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### Author:  [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/7 "2025-04-23T15:06:58Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> Worst
I actually love that song. I had no idea of the back-story. But having been brought into teenage marijuana-fueled consciousness, Cat (now Yusuf Islam, of course), Dylan etc I was only barely aware of the story behind it.
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/8 "2025-04-23T15:10:22Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Nope, that was a different Patti.
Damn, now I’m embarrassed, and a new universe has branched for me (think Mandela effect). Up to your post, I would have sworn that Patti D’Arbanville and Patti Boyd were the same person, only that her name had changed sometimes through marriage or adoption or whatever. It’s good to have the Dope to get rid of such misconceptions.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/9 "2025-04-23T15:32:43Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> Damn, now I’m embarrassed
No need! Thank you for giving me an opportunity to show that I know something. 😁
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/10 "2025-04-23T15:58:21Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> Up to your post, I would have sworn that Patti D’Arbanville and Patti Boyd were the same person, only that her name had changed sometimes through marriage or adoption or whatever.
Don’t even get me started on Patty Smyth vs Patti Smith.
Just to copy over two songs from the other thread:
[One More Minute - Weird Al Yankovic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWhpk-8QLFQ)
[Funny How Time Slips Away - Willie Nelson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7iM_GGtIaI)
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/11 "2025-04-23T16:07:54Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> Don’t even get me started on Patty Smyth vs Patti Smith.
Yeah, that’s also very tricky, though I got that down. Wasn’t there a Doper who only found out on this board that Jerry Lee Lewis and Jerry Lewis are two different persons?
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/12 "2025-04-23T16:14:18Z")
[Thank God And Greyhound (She’s Gone) - Roy Clark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx8x3LCnYZw&ab_channel=wilburscott)
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/13 "2025-04-23T16:21:05Z")
Kristin Chenoweth - “If (You Hadn’t, But You Did)”
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7gE16OWO0)
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/14 "2025-04-23T16:23:36Z")
Here we go
Weird Al Yankovic’s _One More Minute_
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yWhpk-8QLFQ/maxresdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic - One More Minute (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWhpk-8QLFQ)
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/15 "2025-04-23T16:25:04Z")
ETA: Shakes fist at Gyrate. “Stay off my lawn!”
We already have the [ultimate break up mix tape](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ultimate-breakup-cd-need-answers-fast/467965) thread.
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### Author:  [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/16 "2025-04-23T17:26:59Z")
May I submit Mason Williams’ _Sweet Someone_ (not to be confused with the Don Ho song), which includes the immortal quatrain:
You done stomped on my heart
You tore it all apart
Darlin’, you just sorta
Mashed on my aorta!
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/17 "2025-04-23T17:39:08Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#):
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> Darlin’, you just sorta
> Mashed on my aorta!
_Nice_ rhyming pair 👍
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/18 "2025-04-23T17:48:55Z")
Also, I believe I once read somewhere, ‘Something in the way she moves’, and ‘The way you look tonight’.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/19 "2025-04-23T17:58:53Z")
50 ways to leave your Lover.
_Paul Simon_
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401/20 "2025-04-23T18:40:21Z")
Ray Charles - Hit the Road, Jack
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRg15NbzqT0)
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