# Grandson of the Song Game Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2002, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373 "2002-07-17T07:16:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/401 "2002-07-22T17:16:36Z")
**Team 2:** \*I looked out across The river today I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower Where the **seagulls** play I saw the sad shire **horses** walking home In the sodium light I saw two priests on the ferry October **geese** on a cold winter’s night All This Time\* - Sting ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/402 "2002-07-22T17:28:53Z")
**Team 1** _ **Flies** in the vaseline we are sometimes it blows my mind keep getting stuck here all the time_ Vaseline, Stone Temple Pilots ---
**Author:** ![\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/977dab/32.png) [@\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Roger_the_Shrubber)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/403 "2002-07-22T17:33:55Z")
Team Two: _I know a **mouse** and he hasn’t got a house I don’t know why I call him Gerald He’s getting rather old, but he’s a good **mouse** _ Bike, Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/404 "2002-07-22T18:19:09Z")
Welcome to the boards, **|Roger**. What kind of shrubbery do you specialize in? **Team 1** _When the **lamb** lies down on Broadway_ Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Genesis ---
**Author:** ![\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/977dab/32.png) [@\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Roger_the_Shrubber)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/405 "2002-07-22T19:08:28Z")
Hey, thanks **Shibb0leth**. Actually, I don’t specialize in any shrubbery at all…Roger the Shrubber has a five second shot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and everybody calls me Roger the Shrubber at work since we’re into the whole awful British humor scene. (Well, not everybody calls me that. Some people call me Rodge. But a good 74.3% of them). _nods assuredly_ Team Two: - If I were a **swan** I’d be gone If I were a train I’d be late And if I were a good man I’d talk with you more often than I do\* If | Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/406 "2002-07-22T19:43:02Z")
Well, a shrubbery would be nice, just over there. And p’raps another one just over there, but slightly higher, so as to give a two level affect with a little path running down in between. **Team 1** - Now I wasn’t, uh, knee-crawlin’, slip-slidin’, reggy-youngin’, commode- huggin’ drunk, I was God’s own drunk, and a fearless man; And that’s when I first saw the **bear**. \* God’s Own Drunk, Jimmy Buffett ---
**Author:** ![\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/977dab/32.png) [@\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Roger_the_Shrubber)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/407 "2002-07-22T20:07:15Z")
Exactly; Team Two: _Lucifer Sam, Siam cat Always sitting by your side always By your side That **cat** ’s something I can’t explain I can’t explain_ Lucifer Sam | Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/408 "2002-07-22T20:30:59Z")
Team 1 Walk Like A Panther - Jarvis Cocker, The All Seeing I _You’ve got to fly like an **eagle** Prowl like a **lion** in Africa Leap like a **salmon** Pulled from the sea To keep up with me You’ve got to walk like a **panther** tonight_ ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/409 "2002-07-22T21:03:50Z")
**Team 2:** \*Blue morning Blue morning Wrapped in strands of fist and bone Curiosity, **Kitten** , doesn’t have to mean you’re on your own Murder of One\* - Counting Crows ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/410 "2002-07-22T21:14:05Z")
Team 1: _Wild **horses** Couldn’t drag me away_ Wild Horses - Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/977dab/32.png) [@\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Roger_the_Shrubber)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/411 "2002-07-22T21:31:15Z")
Team Two: _You’d better watch out There may be **dogs** about You’d better stay home do as you’re told Get out of the road if you want to grow old_ Sheep | Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/412 "2002-07-22T21:40:44Z")
**Team 1** _Black and orange stray **cat** sitting on a fence Ain’t got enough dough to pay the rent_ Stray Cat Strut, Stray Cats ---
**Author:** ![\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/977dab/32.png) [@\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Roger_the_Shrubber)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/413 "2002-07-22T21:48:03Z")
Team Two: _In the sky a **bird** was heard to cry Misty morning whisperings And gentle stirring sounds_ Granchester Meadow | Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/414 "2002-07-22T21:53:52Z")
Team 1 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers _The future teaches you to be alone The present to be afraid and cold So if I can shoot **rabbits** Then I can shoot fascists_ ---
**Author:** ![\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/977dab/32.png) [@\_Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Roger_the_Shrubber)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/415 "2002-07-22T21:56:01Z")
Team Two: - **Dogs** of war and men of hate With no cause, we don’t discriminate Discovery is to be disowned Our currency is flesh and bone\* Dogs of War | Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/416 "2002-07-22T22:00:23Z")
Pink Floyd sang a few songs with animals in them then did they? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/417 "2002-07-22T22:23:42Z")
Team 1 The Ballad Of Tom Jones - Space and Cerys Matthews _And now our war is over I’ve lost the urge to break your neck I owe my life to What’s New Pussy **Cat** Delilah stopped me hating you and wishing you dead_ ---
**Author:** ![Minor\_Irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Minor\_Irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minor_Irritant)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/418 "2002-07-22T22:28:40Z")
Team 2 (man, I go away for a few hours, and look what happens!) _Oh, some men like the **fish** in’ And some men like the **fowl** in’ And some men, they like ta hear, ta hear the cannonball a’roarin’_ Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica (again!) ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/419 "2002-07-22T23:52:05Z")
Team 1: _Rise up this morning Smile with the rising sun Three little **birds** Beside my doorstep_ Bob Marley - Three Little Birds ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/420 "2002-07-23T00:59:22Z")
**Team 2:** \*The **fox** went out on a chilly night, He prayed for the moon to give him light, For he’d many a mile to go that night, Before he reached the town-o The Fox\* - traditional folk song [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373.md?page=22)