# \[GAME\] Speak To Me Only in Song Lyrics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 16, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502 "2013-05-16T12:17:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 17

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/321 "2013-06-03T15:34:06Z")

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Oh, we’re the John Birch Society.  
The John Birch Society.  
Here to save our country from a Communistic plot.  
Join the John Birch Society.  
Help us fight the Reds.  
We’ll use our hands and hearts.  
And if we must we’ll use our heads.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/322 "2013-06-03T15:35:59Z")

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Silver wings upon our chests.  
We are men, America’s best!

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/323 "2013-06-03T15:43:59Z")

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He’s a Catholic, a Hindu,  
An atheist, a Jain,  
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew,  
And he knows he shouldn’t kill,  
And he knows he always will,  
Killing for me, my friend, and for you.

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/324 "2013-06-03T16:39:43Z")

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Here’s to the Chinaman, wise and old  
Here’s to the Eskimo, brave and cold  
Here’s to the Jew in the holy land  
Here’s to the Arab in his caravan  
Here’s to the African, strong and proud  
Here’s to the Redneck, good and loud  
Here’s one to you and there’s one more thing  
A bell in your head will ring

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/325 "2013-06-03T16:42:15Z")

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Bless 'em all,  
Bless 'em all.  
The long and the short and the tall,

Bless all those Sergeants and WO1’s,  
Bless all those Corporals and their bleedin’ sons,  
Cos’ we’re saying goodbye to 'em all.  
And back to their Billets they crawl,  
You’ll get no promotion this side of the ocean,  
So cheer up my lads bless 'em all

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/326 "2013-06-03T17:08:42Z")

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Would you rather be a colonel with an eagle on your shoulder  
Or a private with a chicken on your knee?

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/327 "2013-06-03T17:14:45Z")

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Don’t go walking down lovers’ lane with anyone else but me  
Till I come marching home  
I just got word from a guy who heard  
From the guy next door to me  
The girl he met just loves to pet  
And it fits you to a “T”

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/328 "2013-06-03T18:50:28Z")

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You don’t own me!  
I’m not just one of your many toys.  
You don’t own me!  
Don’t say I can’t go with other boys

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/329 "2013-06-03T18:56:01Z")

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See the market place in old Algiers  
Send me photographs and souvenirs  
Just remember when a dream appears  
You belong to me

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/330 "2013-06-03T19:18:42Z")

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Everybody’s mine  
At sometime  
Everybody’s mine

You’ll enjoy your stay  
'Til you’re reborn some day  
Until you are, you’re mine.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/331 "2013-06-03T19:32:10Z")

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Alone from night to night youll find me  
Too weak to break the chains that bind me.  
I need no shackles to remind me  
I’m just a prisoner of love.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/332 "2013-06-03T19:38:48Z")

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So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains  
And we never even know we have the key

But me, I’m already gone

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**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/333 "2013-06-03T19:41:07Z")

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I had a friend named Ramblin’ Bob  
Who used to steal gamble and rob  
He thought he was the smartest guy in town  
But I found out last Monday  
That Bob got locked up Sunday  
They’ve got him in the jailhouse way down town  
He’s in the jailhouse now he’s in the jailhouse now

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/334 "2013-06-03T19:52:49Z")

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I come here to tell you people I’m ragged but right  
I’m a thief and a gambler, I get drunk every night  
I get a porterhouse steak three times a day for my board  
That’s more than any loafer in this town can afford.

A big electric fan to keep me cool while I sleep  
A sweet little girl plays around at my feet  
I’m a ramblin’ gambler and I’m drunk every night  
I tell you boys I’m ragged but right

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/335 "2013-06-03T20:13:21Z")

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Right  
You’re bloody well right  
You have a bloody right to say

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/336 "2013-06-03T21:23:18Z")

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I don’t need to fight  
To prove I’m right.  
And I don’t need to be forgiven.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/337 "2013-06-03T22:46:42Z")

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You gotta fight for your right to party!

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/338 "2013-06-03T23:36:27Z")

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Get this party started, on a Saturday night,  
everybody’s waiting for me to arrive  
Sending out the message to all of my friends  
we’ll be looking flashy in my Mercedes Benz  
I got lots of style with my gold diamond rings  
I can go for miles if you know what I mean  
I’m coming up so you better get this party started

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/339 "2013-06-04T01:47:22Z")

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Let’s get back to the start, don’t tear down this heart of mine  
Cause I’ve been waiting, waiting a long, long time

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/340 "2013-06-04T01:57:58Z")

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Wait till the sun shines, Nellie,  
When the clouds go drifting by,  
We will be happy, Nellie,  
Don’t you sigh.  
Down Lover’s Lane we’ll wander,  
Sweethearts you and I.  
Wait till the sun shines, Nellie,  
Bye and bye."

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