# \[GAME\] Speak To Me Only in Song Lyrics **URL:** \ **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:** 32
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/621 "2013-06-17T03:27:15Z")
The long and winding road That leads to your door Will never disappear I’ve seen that road before It always leads me here Leads me to your door ---
**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 17, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/622 "2013-06-17T11:54:13Z")
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/623 "2013-06-17T12:12:20Z")
Anyone could see the road that they walk on is paved in gold And it’s always summer, they’ll never get cold They’ll never get hungry They’ll never get old and gray You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere They wont make it home But they really don’t care They wanted the highway They’re happy there today. ---
**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 17, 2013, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/624 "2013-06-17T12:18:06Z")
and it’s hitchhike a hundred miles I’m a ragamuffin child pointed finger, painted smile… ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/625 "2013-06-17T12:41:14Z")
Leaving Carmel, Californi-el— ``` I got a letter and the letter said: "May God's richest blessings be upon you . . " and that's why I'm going to Chicago. Leaving San Francisco, Californi-o--- Leaving Sacramento, Ca1iforni-o--- Going east, mister? . . . It's the freights for you, boy. Leaving Colfax, Californi-ax! "Let 'er highball, engineer!" Leaving Emigrant Gap, Californi-ap! "If you want to stay in one piece sleep on the back end of the oil tank, buddy. She's tough goin' down the other side of the Sierras." Leaving Truckee, Californigh-ee-ee--- Leaving Reno, Neva-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-do-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-Oh--- "Hey, Slim, you'll get killed on that oil tank. There's a empty back here!" ``` ---
**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 17, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/626 "2013-06-17T12:42:30Z")
I’ve been to: Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota, Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota, Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, LaPaloma, Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo, Tocapillo, Barranquilla, And Padilla, I’m a killer ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/627 "2013-06-17T13:00:12Z")
Baton Rouge Louisiana, Indianapolis Indiana, and Columbus is the capital of O-hi-o. There’s Montgomery Alabama, south of Helena Montana then there’s Denver Colorado, and Boise Idaho. Texas has Austin then we go north, to Massachusetts Boston and Albany New York. Tallahassee Florida and Washington D.C., Santa Fe New Mexico and Nashville Tennessee. Elvis used to hang out there a lot, you know. Trenton’s in New Jersey north of Jefferson Missouri, You got Richmond in Virginia, South Dakota has Pierre, Harrisburg’s in Pennsylvania and Augusta’s up in Maine, and here is Providence Rhode Island next to Dover Delaware. ---
**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 17, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/628 "2013-06-17T13:29:31Z")
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! ---
**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 17, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/629 "2013-06-17T13:31:50Z")
I’m sailing away. Set an open course for the virgin sea. I’ve got to be free. Free to chart the life that’s ahead of me. On board, I’m the captain, so climb aboard. We’ll search for tomorrow and every shore. And we will try the best that we can to carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/630 "2013-06-17T13:35:36Z")
I’m leaving my family, I’m leaving all my friends My body’s at home, but my heart’s in the wind Where the clouds are like headlines on a new front-page sky My tears are salt water, and the moon’s full and high And I know Martin Eden’s gonna be proud of me now And many before me, who’ve been called by the sea To be up in the crow’s nest, and singing my say Shiver me timbers, cause I’m a-sailing away. ---
**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 17, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/631 "2013-06-17T13:36:02Z")
Shiver My Timbers, Shiver my sides Yo ho heave ho There are hungers as strong as the winds and tides Yo ho heave ho And those bucaneers drowned their sins in rum, The devil himself would have to call 'em scum! Every man on board would have killed his mate for a bag of guineas or a piece of eight, a piece of eight, a piece of eight ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/632 "2013-06-17T13:39:50Z")
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me. We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. We kidnap and ravage and don’t give a hoot. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me. We extort and pilfer, we filch and sack. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. Maraud and embezzle and even highjack. Drink up me 'earties, yo ho. ---
**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 17, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/633 "2013-06-17T13:42:52Z")
There is rum rum, rum on a pirate ship If you drink too much the ship will tip Drinking rum rum, rum on a pirate ship You’d better share you’d better share There is rum on a pirate ship Along with peggy legs and cannonballs, enough to last the trip But there is scurvy on a pirate ship so Eat a lime eat a lime 'Coz scurvy don’t taste good… eat a lime! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/634 "2013-06-17T14:53:31Z")
Men, men, men. It’s a ship all filled with men. You’ll never have to lift the seat, there’s no one here but men Men, Men, Men, Men Men, Men, Men, Men We’re men and friends until the end and none of us are sissies, At night we sleep in separate beds and blow each other kissies (And blow each other kissies) Men, men, men. It’s a ship all filled with men. So throw your rubbers overboard, there’s no one here but men Ahhhhhhhhh, Mennnnn. ---
**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 17, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/635 "2013-06-17T14:57:37Z")
It’s Raining Men! Hallelujah! - It’s Raining Men! Amen! I’m gonna go out to run and let myself get Absolutely soaking wet! It’s Raining Men! Hallelujah! It’s Raining Men! Every Specimen! Tall, blonde, dark and lean Rough and tough and strong and mean ---
**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 17, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/636 "2013-06-17T15:03:12Z")
Reuben was the oldest of the chldren of Isreal With Simeon and Levi the next in line. Naphtali and Issachar, Asher and Dan, Zebulon and Gad took the total to nine. Jacob, Jacob and sons. Benjamin and Judah, which leaves only one. Jacob, Jacob and sons. Joseph, Jacob’s favorite son. ---
**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 17, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/637 "2013-06-17T15:10:06Z")
I’ll sing you twelve, Ho Green grow the rushes, Ho What are your twelve, Ho? Twelve for the twelve Apostles Eleven for the eleven who went to heaven, Ten for the ten commandments, Nine for the nine bright shiners, Eight for the April Rainers, Seven for the seven stars in the sky, Six for the six proud walkers, Five for the symbols at your door, Four for the Gospel makers, Three, three, the rivals, Two, two, the lily-white boys, Clothèd all in green, Ho Ho One is one and all alone And evermore shall be so. ---
**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 17, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/638 "2013-06-17T15:23:10Z")
Hey, baby, I’m gonna send them ten by ten Ten’s for the Ten Commandments Nine for the nine who dressed so fine Eight for the eight who stood at the gate And seven for the seven who never got to Heaven And six for the six who never got fixed Five for the Gospel Preachers Four for the four who stood at the door Three’s for the Hebrew children Two for Paul and Silas And one for the little bitty baby He was born, (yeah, yeah), born, he was born in Bethlehem. (was born in Bethlehem) ---
**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 17, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/639 "2013-06-17T15:29:36Z")
See the little baby, amen Lyin’ in a manger, amen On christmas morning, Amen, amen, amen See him in the temple, amen Talking with the elders, amen Who marveled at his wisdom Amen, amen, amen ---
**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 17, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/640 "2013-06-17T15:32:20Z")
Mary said “It’s getting late, but thanks for stopping by. I’d love to chat, but I just gave birth to the Lord, our God on high. Here we are at 3 a.m. with Ringo Starr of Bethlehem. Baby Jesu needs to rest and God knows, so do I.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502.md?page=33)