# couples-what's your song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073 "2001-02-11T22:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/21 "2001-02-12T21:03:00Z")
**Save the Best for Last** by Vanessa Williams. Because that’s what we did 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/22 "2001-02-12T21:14:40Z")
Eve6- Inside Out ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2001, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/23 "2001-02-12T21:41:20Z")
I dont really know how a song becomes “your song” but if it is a song you listend to together and lateron listened to in an endless loop for days cause you just “missed him so much” … well… if it is that mine is: For you by Tracy Chapman Keep away from it. It s mine! dodgy ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/24 "2001-02-13T00:34:09Z")
In My Life, by the Beatles. It was sung solo acapella at our wedding by a friend of Mrs. Blue, and we have the entire ceremony on audio tape. Memories…wedded bliss 19 years this coming October. ---
**Author:** ![Rico\_Swervy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c67d28/32.png) [@Rico\_Swervy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico_Swervy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/25 "2001-02-13T00:49:51Z")
“I Only Have Eyes For You” by the Flamingos. When they do that ‘She-bop, Sha-bop’ background vocal, my wife and I melt into each other. It’s an oldie, but a real-goodie. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/26 "2001-02-13T01:09:33Z")
my third boyfriend Matt is the only one whose “our song” I can remember… it was “Heartbeats Accelerating” by Kate and Anna McGarrigle. We translated it into Esperanto for each other (“Korbatoj Rapidendas”) ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/27 "2001-02-13T01:33:51Z")
There’s a reason behind this one. When Mr. Jeannie and I had been dating for a few weeks, we were discussing our respective tastes in music. He’s into classic rock and metal. I’m into country and 80s rock. So I said that we’d never managed to find a song to be ours. He said to just start naming songs until we agreed. We got into discussing oldies. I started singing, “Sugar…aw, Honey, honey, you are my candy girl…” and he just started singing along. So, our song is **Sugar** by the Archies. At our wedding, our first dance was **I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing** by Aerosmith. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/28 "2001-02-13T02:15:54Z")
Our official first song is Kathy Mattea’s “Asking Us to Dance”… Seemed so perfect with how we met, felt, yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah… 10 years later, however, our song (well, mine anyways) sounds more like a square dance and goes something like this: Kick the dog, she’s in the trash, found herself some week-old hash Just chewed up my brand new hat, Now I wish I had a caaaat. Kids are loud, they want to eat shit, forgot to thaw the meat throw them both some beans and franks, Get dirty looks instead of thannnks. I want a bath and go to bed but hubby’s begging me for head Lick him one time just for fun, Lick him twice and now he’s doooone. Out of here I want to run Need to chill and have some fun Think I’ll go and get a drink, and hit the boards to make me thiiiink. Seriously though, I love em all to death 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/29 "2001-02-13T04:48:39Z")
I’ve been dating my GF for 4.5 years. Our song is “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” by the Beach Boys. She sent it to me on a tape during the summer break our freshman year in college (after 8 months of dating), since we were apart for so long. Jman ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/30 "2001-02-13T05:04:49Z")
Well, although he likes to sing, _Close to You_ by the Carpenters to me all the time (he’s quite sappy), our “official” song is Grateful Dead’s _Sugar Magnolia_. ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/31 "2001-02-13T08:26:17Z")
“Do you believe in life after love?”, by Cher. It’s not one of those sweet, ‘He first kissed me while this was playing’ songs though. We had the radio on one night, and that song came on. He sang along. I’ve never heard such bad singing in my life. He completely runed the song. But whenever I hear it, I can see my boy, belting out the lyrics at the top of his lungs, and I have to smile. He gave me the single for my birthday. And every now and then, if I’m lucky, he’ll sing along for me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/32 "2001-02-13T14:37:24Z")
We had bunches of ‘em, including (I blush to admit it) Celine Dion’s \*\* Falling Into You \*\* and Garth Brooks’ \*\* Shameless \*\* Though Mrs. HTB is not a big country fan, she said it perfectly captured her emotions, besides being a fun,over-the-top performance. But the one that we asked her brother to play at our wedding was Tish Hinojosa’s gorgeous \*\* Who Showed You The Way to My Heart \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/33 "2001-02-13T15:50:57Z")
Van Morrison’s [Brown-Eyed Girl](http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7571/browneye.htm). We danced to it at my husband’s father’s wedding. They got married outside at this inn/restaurant, and we danced all around the pond in back, on the slate walkway. It was outrageously romantic. Sometimes we dance to it at home. And yes, I have brown eyes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/34 "2001-02-14T02:55:23Z")
**Lightning Strikes** by Lou Christie. Mr. Rilch’s and my first date was to opening day at Three Rivers Stadium. Lou Christie sang the anthem, and performed his song during the 7th inning stretch. Sigh. No more Three Rivers. So we can’t revisit the setting of Our First Date. And they’re putting up a parking lot where it used to be. We thought that was funny, in a way. We’re both big Peanuts fans, and it immediately reminded us of the sequence wherein Snoopy went to visit the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, and found there was a parking lot where it had been. “You’re parking on my memories!” ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/35 "2001-02-14T07:29:35Z")
OK, this is my preemptive strike - It’s still not “Slack Motherfucker” which Snooooopy’s been lobbying for. I’m open to (other) suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/36 "2001-02-14T07:32:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slackergirl \* > \*\*OK, this is my preemptive strike - It’s still not “Slack Motherfucker” which Snooooopy’s been lobbying for. > > I’m open to (other) suggestions. \*\* Aw, but that would be so COOOOOOOOL! ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/37 "2001-02-14T08:57:22Z")
Aww, **Silver** , that’s so sad! ☹ You and I can have a song, if you’d like… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pammipoo \* > \*\* It’s not one of those sweet, ‘He first kissed me while this was playing’ songs though. We had the radio on one night, and that song came on. He sang along. I’ve never heard such bad singing in my life. He completely runed the song. But whenever I hear it, I can see my boy, belting out the lyrics at the top of his lungs, and I have to smile. … And every now and then, if I’m lucky, he’ll sing along for me 🙂 \*\* Oh yeah. She (Claire, my ex-, see above) would probably shoot me if she knew I forgot this… She claimed she couldn’t sing and I refused to believe her. In fact, even after she’s sung for me I still think she sings well. Anyway, the song was “From This Moment On” by Shania Twain, and it was the first song she ever sang aloud for me. And I haven’t been able to listen to it since we broke up… ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/38 "2001-02-14T14:20:46Z")
REM’s **The One I Love**. I work on the road a lot, and the song describes one lover’s longing for the other. [Lyrics here](http://www.jimbowieband.com/Lyrics/one_i_love.htm). ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/39 "2001-02-14T15:08:44Z")
Our “song” is _ **Cross My Heart** _ by George Strait. The one we danced to first at our wedding was _ **Love Me Tender** _, Amy Grant’s version, from the “Honeymoon In Vegas” soundtrack. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![that\_darn\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@that\_darn\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that_darn_cat)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073/40 "2001-02-14T15:25:31Z")
My betrothed and I have three: “Rasberry Swirl” by Tori Amos (wink,wink,nudge,nudge) “Dawn”, by Stabbing Westward from the Escape from LA soundtrack. Great soundtrack, used very poorly in a lousy movie. Hint: her name is the second word in the song. “I want you Bad”, by the Offspring. Mmmm, bad If she sees this, I’m dead [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couples-whats-your-song/54073.md?page=3)