# Everything I Know About Satan I Have Learnt From Popular Music...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 16, 2007, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889 "2007-10-16T10:01:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
**Page:** 6

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/101 "2007-10-17T07:20:36Z")

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Now who could it be? Could it be…_SATAN_?

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**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/102 "2007-10-17T07:29:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Manatee]  
She looks like an angel and talks like an angel. But Elvis knows that it’s just a disguise. Oh yes it is.  
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It’s been done in post #12.

You just turned it inside out.  
soul stealer, underhand dealer.  
You are the persecuter.  
The desert sun.

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**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/103 "2007-10-17T07:53:15Z")

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[QUOTE=cochrane]  
Here’s to my sweet Satan!  
The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan!  
He’ll give those with him 666.  
There was a little tool shed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.  
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83# tsop ees

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**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/104 "2007-10-17T09:10:53Z")

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You’re one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan  
Designed and directed by his red right hand.

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**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/105 "2007-10-17T09:12:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad]  
I have nothing to worry about. He’s down in Georgia.  
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And in the House of the Rising Sun.

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**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/106 "2007-10-17T10:19:08Z")

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Discard your clothes and come on foot  
Through streams and fields and moonlit moors  
Your bodies soaked in secret oils  
Perfumed herbs won’t heal your sores  
Join me in my search for knowledge  
Wives and husbands bring your kin  
We’ll be as one within the hour  
Let the Sabbat now begin!

Come! Come! Come to the Sabbat!  
Come to the Sabbat! Satan’s there!

{possibly the jauntiest ode to Devil Worship ever recorded}

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**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/107 "2007-10-17T10:22:02Z")

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_Roll to the rock Rock to the roll  
DMC stands for Devastatin’ Mic Control  
You can’t touch me with a 10 foot pole  
 **And I even made the Devil sell me his soul** _

So apparently Daryl McDaniels of Run-DMC owns the devils soul.

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**Author:** ![Flipshod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f19dbf/32.png) [@Flipshod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipshod)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/108 "2007-10-17T15:08:48Z")

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[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]  
Mary, ain’t you tired of this?  
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She’s just a devil woman, with evil on her mind…

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/109 "2007-10-17T21:13:51Z")

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He has a herd of red eyed cows whose brands are still on fire and their hooves are made of steel. Their horns are black and shiny and their hot breath- you can feel.

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**Author:** ![Khadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/110 "2007-10-17T23:58:03Z")

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He wants to fuck me in the back of his car.

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/111 "2007-10-18T00:48:28Z")

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I hear his water ain’t so sweet, but you don’t have to drink it right now.

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**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everything-i-know-about-satan-i-have-learnt-from-popular-music/422889/112 "2007-10-18T00:55:31Z")

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His hound is on my trail.

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