# Funniest single line in a song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773 "2003-10-05T23:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/81 "2003-10-09T11:14:38Z")
The funniest song to me is Frank Zappa’s [Dinah-Moe Hum](http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/126651/Frank_Zappa/Dinah-moe-hum/). Practically every line is a laugh riot. But I gotta give an honorable mention to Hendrix for his famous line that, while not funny itself, was so universally misinterpreted that eventually, even he made fun of it. I’m speaking, of course, about: _'Scuse me, while I kiss the sky!_ (Heard as: 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy!) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/82 "2003-10-09T13:19:40Z")
Rats. Someone took my nomination of Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” already. OK, then, I nominate the one line in Guns N Roses’ “Pretty Tied Up” where Axel says in a deep voice, right before the refrain (and for no apparent reason), “Cool Ranch Dressing.” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/83 "2003-10-09T13:37:06Z")
UnEasy Rider by Charlie Daniels (a very funny song but my favorite line is) I aint even got a garage! You can call home and ask my wife! and then there is another song I don’t know the title or who sang it. It is from the early-mid 70’sand the song is about some Feds busting some guys pot farm and the last line of the song is We just smiled and waved, sitting on that sack of seeds ---
**Author:** ![refusal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@refusal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/refusal)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/84 "2003-10-09T15:46:35Z")
“I’m off to see the Bootleg Beatles as the Bootleg Mark Chapman” Half Man Half Biscuit, “When The Evening Sun Goes Down” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/85 "2003-10-09T16:05:18Z")
“We just smiled and waved, sitting on that sack of seeds” Wasn’t that Jim Stafford? “Wildwood Weed” I think was the title. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/86 "2003-10-09T16:09:40Z")
Oh yeah, and another good one by Tom Waits. “The Piano Has Been Drinking” is another one where every line is hoot, but I particularly like this one: “And you cannot find your waitress With a Geiger counter And she hates you, and your friends and you Just can’t get served without her.” ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/87 "2003-10-09T22:47:00Z")
I was going to ask if Weird AL was fair game for this post or not, but then I saw that he has already been listed. Weird AL has his fair share of weird songs, and amazingly the titles clue you into his weirder songs. “Everything you know is wrong” (a reference to disembodied head of colnel sanders, black being white, short being long…etc )“Sourkraut” (11 minutes of near in coherenent babling,taking you to albuqurqe, a plane crash, the future life of a 26 year old being forcefed sourkraut with an inept donut dealer… ) have to be among his most insane… of the insane. Then again, They Might be Giants also seem to have a fair share of crazy songs. “Your older than youve ever been before, and now your even older…” “He wants a Shoehorn, the kind with teeth…” More Mainstream, I would have to give a nod to songs that have a in-joke that the listener gets after a second or third hearing. I havent heard the song for a while, I think it is either a Hootie and the Blowfish or Smashmouth song. The song’s lyric is something like “Head and toes are hard, but the middle is soft” ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/88 "2003-10-09T23:26:12Z")
The Cramps… New Kind of Kick “Life is short filled with stuff don’t know what for I ain’t had enough” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/89 "2003-10-10T00:10:14Z")
We don’t care whose ass we kick, and when we’re all alone We stare into the mirror and try to kick our own-- Fry and Laurie ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/90 "2003-10-10T00:33:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shoeless \* > \*\*“We just smiled and waved, sitting on that sack of seeds” > > Wasn’t that Jim Stafford? “Wildwood Weed” I think was the title. \*\* Heh, that’s been one of my favorite songs since I was a child…that’s on the same album as ‘Spiders and Snakes’, right? > [@](#): > > Trying to find my brother, Bill. > Caught up with him, 'bout six o’clock the next morning, > Naked, swinging on the wind mill! > He said he flew up there. > I had to fly up there and bring him down ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/91 "2003-10-10T01:12:28Z")
Funniest Beatles lyric: “Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.” Hall of Fame: Lyle Lovett “I told her redneckness has got to be a disease You catch it on your fingers, it just goes right up your sleeve” "The preacher asked her an’ she said ‘I do’ The preacher asked me, she said ‘yes, he does too’ " "Mystery Masked Man was smart Got himself a Tonto 'cuz Tonto did the dirty work for free Now Tonto, he was smarter One day said ‘Kemo Sabe, Kiss my ass I bought a boat and I’m going out to sea.’ " ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/92 "2003-10-10T01:41:47Z")
> [@](#): > > I was lonelier than kunta kinte at a merle haggard concert > [snip] You are right, every line is a great one liner. Kinda like Casablanca. Now, tell me who does it and end my misery. :::smooches::: ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/93 "2003-10-10T01:49:39Z")
From Jessica Simpson’s “I Wanna Love you Forever”… “Pour yourself all over me And I’ll cherish every drop here on my knees” I’m pretty sure this is unintentional (at least, I hope so) but is this really the message you want YOUR twelve year old daughter getting…? Twelve year old boys worldwide scream “Yes!!!” ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/94 "2003-10-10T02:00:51Z")
From Pearl Jam’s “Dirty Frank,” a somewhat obscure song about a cannibalistic bus driver. “The band all knows, we’re too afraid to mention Don’t want to be part of frank’s luncheon A-lose weight, a-be safe… Where’s Mike McCready? My god, he’s been ate!” and “Why that Dirty Frank was a bad mother…Shut your mouth! Hey, I’m just talking about Dirty Frank” ---
**Author:** ![oAmberwaveSo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@oAmberwaveSo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oAmberwaveSo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/95 "2003-10-11T05:21:29Z")
“My moral standing is lying down.” ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/96 "2003-10-31T11:49:09Z")
Ben Folds, Rockin’ The Suburbs: “It makes me real pissed off, it makes me wanna say It makes me real pissed off, it makes me wanna say It makes me real pissed off, it makes me wanna say FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!” ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/97 "2003-10-31T12:21:08Z")
My favorite line from Joe Walsh’s “Life’s Been Good”: “My Maserati does 185- I lost my liscence, now I don’t drive”. From the Violent Fems “Punk Rock Girl” “We went to a record store, and asked for Mojo Nixon They said ‘He don’t work here’…” ---
**Author:** ![Chicago\_Faucet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chicago_faucet/32/13910_2.png) [@Chicago\_Faucet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicago_Faucet)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/98 "2003-10-31T15:44:19Z")
Sting’s “All This Time” is full of a whole plethora of great one line lyrics. People remember it for the bouncy bouncy tune of the song, but the lyrics Sting is actually saying are silly/profound. My favorite is: “Men go crazy in congregations, but usually get better one by one.” ---
**Author:** ![Gorgonzola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@Gorgonzola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgonzola)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/99 "2003-10-31T18:22:01Z")
Warren Zevon, _Mr. Bad Example_: “I ordered up their furniture and took it to Spokane, And auctioned off every last Naugahyde divan.” ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773/100 "2003-10-31T21:39:06Z")
More of They Might Be Giants, this time from _Ana Ng_: "I saw this painted on a bridge – ‘I don’t want the whole world, I just want your half.’ " James, _Laid_: “Messed around with gender roles, Dye my eyes and call me pretty.” Sir Mixalot, _I Like Big Butts_: “But Fonda ain’t got a motor in the back of her Honda, My anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns, hon.” Southern Culture on the Skids, _Camel Walk_: “Baby, would you eat that there snack cracker in your special outfit for me, please?” King Missile, _Detachable Penis_. No quote, as the entire song is funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-single-line-in-a-song/205773.md?page=6)