# Game - Song Letter Change **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410 "2001-04-10T00:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/1 "2001-04-10T00:42:15Z")
Change just one letter in a popular song and give a rationale for it. Example “You Light Up My Wife” - sung by Joan of Arc’s husband. Take it, Satchmo … ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/2 "2001-04-10T00:52:24Z")
“Born to be a wife!” by… I forget. Errr… “Burn in the USA”? Lame. This is harder than I thought. I think I’m off to the Babelfish Song Fun Thread again. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/3 "2001-04-10T00:59:46Z")
perhaps a cattleman’s song: \*A Herd Day’s Night ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/4 "2001-04-10T02:53:16Z")
There’s Michelangelo’s theme song: _Chip It! (Chip It Good)_ ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/5 "2001-04-10T03:03:46Z")
From Sting’s latest CD _Brand New Lay_ _A Thousand Gears_ ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/6 "2001-04-10T03:13:40Z")
One surfer reassuring another? “Hey Dude” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/7 "2001-04-10T03:17:20Z")
Who can forget Duran Duran’s homage to the Osmonds - _Mild Boys_? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/8 "2001-04-10T03:24:30Z")
_Jungle Booger_ by that guy with a cold in the Amazon. . . . no? How about _Stray Rat Strut_ by Willard? _I Believe I Can Fry_ By one of those Iron Chef guys. _It’s Umpossible_ by Ralph Wiggum. Please stop me before I pun again! ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/9 "2001-04-10T03:39:35Z")
Of course there’s Freud’s rendition of _Crazy Brain_ Then there’s Lee Iacoca’s version of _Highway to Sell_ ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/10 "2001-04-10T03:50:42Z")
and that great grooming classic from Dex’s Midnight Gunners, “Comb on Irene” ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/11 "2001-04-10T04:06:18Z")
‘El Condom Pasa’ by Semen and Garfunkel ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/12 "2001-04-10T04:25:13Z")
From the rap world we have the Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s erotic classic about a visit to a parlor: “The Massage”. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/13 "2001-04-10T06:31:40Z")
Well, there’s the classic 70’s song about hardware stores: “Socket Man”. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/14 "2001-04-10T09:07:13Z")
Don’t forget **Roberta Flack** s anti-drugs song _Killing me softly with his bong_. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/15 "2001-04-10T10:58:59Z")
> [@](#): > > ‘El Condom Pasa’ by Semen and Garfunkel Is this the same “Semen” who sang _Loves Me Like a Cock_? 🙂 There’s also: Don McLean’s farmyard anthem, _American Pig_; Madonna’s take on classical literature, _Like a Virgil_; Lionel Ritchie’s paean to wobbly dessert food, _Jello_; Michael Jackson’s tribute to Whitney Houston, _Shriller_; The Tokens songs about medication for mental patients, _The Loon Sleeps Tonight_…[sub]oog…must stop now…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/16 "2001-04-10T12:13:10Z")
The paean to the Clinton Administration \* American Lie \* ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/17 "2001-04-10T12:53:17Z")
Egad! I’ve wandered into a Frank & Ernest cartoon! ObReply: It’s only fitting that the Trashmen paid homage to Shakespeare with _Surfin’ Bard_, what with their flowery writing style and everything. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/18 "2001-04-10T13:19:57Z")
From the spooky coincidence dept: early morning here, checking the various threads before work starts and I have the place to myself. While this very thread is opening, I dash to the bathroom for a quick…um, quality time. While there, I pick up as reading material “Uncle John’s Legendary Lost Bathroom Reader” (We are a high class biz here) and encounter on page 541 a whole page of these things from a magazine competition. My favorite? **Fifty Ways to Lease Your Lover** billed as “a way to beat the recession.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/19 "2001-04-10T13:42:02Z")
Song the Jackson Five wrote for their appearance on British TV: _BBC_. CCR’s tribute to backyard barbecues: _Cookin’ Out My Back Door_. Melanie’s ode to beer: _Brand New Keg_. Jim Croce’s song for serious Irish dancing: _You Don’t Mess Around with Jig_. Al Stewart’s song about a mean dog: _Fear of the Cat_. The Monkees’ song for baseball pitchers: _I’m a Reliever_. And as long as we have a thing for Paul Semen happening, what about the song he wrote about his favorite underwear: _The Boxers_? ---
**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:** [April 10, 2001, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-song-letter-change/61410/20 "2001-04-10T15:42:40Z")
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