# Grandson of the Song Game Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373>\
**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:** 4

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**Author:** ![Lucy\_Shoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@Lucy\_Shoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucy_Shoe)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/61 "2002-07-17T16:36:07Z")

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**Team 2**

Pardon me, boy,  
Is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?  
Track **twenty-nine** ,  
Boy, you can give me a shine.

Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

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**Author:** ![Lucy\_Shoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@Lucy\_Shoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucy_Shoe)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/62 "2002-07-17T16:37:30Z")

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make that:

Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/63 "2002-07-17T18:06:54Z")

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**Team One**

Strawberry Wine, Deana Carter

_Like strawberry wine and **seventeen**.  
The hot July moon saw everything.  
My first taste of love oh bittersweet.  
Green on the vine.  
Like strawberry wine._

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**Author:** ![Lucy\_Shoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@Lucy\_Shoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucy_Shoe)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/64 "2002-07-17T18:41:21Z")

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**Team 2**

Well she’s sexy and **17** ,  
my little rock 'n roll queen  
Thats a little bit I seen,  
got to let off a bit of steam  
Dig that sound and shake it around your body, body, body

Stray Cats - Sexy and 17

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/65 "2002-07-17T19:08:32Z")

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**Team One**

One Boy, One Girl, Collin Raye

_ **One** boy, **one** girl  
 **Two** hearts beating wildly  
To put it mildly it was love at first sight._

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**Author:** ![JBERGES](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@JBERGES](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBERGES)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/66 "2002-07-17T19:36:04Z")

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## Team 2

_…and when you’re done,  
your battle’s been won.  
You can sit back, and smile.  
And this is what you hum, you hum,  
 **12341234** _…

Catch 22 - 12341234

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**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:** [July 17, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/67 "2002-07-17T19:36:27Z")

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Team 2:

_But I do know that **one** and **one** is **two**  
And if this **one** could be with you  
What a wonderful world this would be._

(What A) Wonderful World - Sam Cooke

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**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/68 "2002-07-17T19:36:35Z")

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Hurry up, team 2!

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**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:** [July 17, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/69 "2002-07-17T19:44:29Z")

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Yeah, hurry up Team **1**!

Wow, a rare triple simul-post.

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/70 "2002-07-17T20:08:14Z")

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**Team One**

Mama Tried, Merle Haggard

\*I turned **21** in prison  
Doing life without parole  
No one could steer me right but Mama tried[/i[

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**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:** [July 17, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/71 "2002-07-17T20:12:54Z")

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Team 2:

**Uno**! **Dos**!  
**Uno, Dos, Tres, Quattro**

Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs

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**Author:** ![Lucy\_Shoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@Lucy\_Shoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucy_Shoe)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/72 "2002-07-17T20:22:30Z")

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Go Horseflesh!!

I’ll just be napping over here if anybody’s looking for me …

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/73 "2002-07-17T20:38:46Z")

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**Team One**

Amanda, Waylon Jenning

_It’s a measure of people who don’t understand  
The pleasures of life in a hillbilly band.  
I got my first guitar when I was fourteen  
Now I’m crowding 30 and still wearing jeans._

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**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/74 "2002-07-17T21:12:31Z")

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Team 1:

_ **One** love, one heart  
Let’s get together and feel all right_

One Love - Bob Marley

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**Author:** ![Lucy\_Shoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@Lucy\_Shoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucy_Shoe)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/75 "2002-07-17T21:13:09Z")

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**Team 2**

You haul **Sixteen** Tons, whadaya get?  
Another older and deeper in debt  
Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go  
I owe my soul to the company store

Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/76 "2002-07-17T21:24:26Z")

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**Team One**

King of the Road, Roger Miller

_Trailer for sale or rent  
Rooms to let **fifty** cents_

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**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:** [July 17, 2002, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/77 "2002-07-17T21:37:14Z")

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Team 2:

_Sweet dreams are made of these  
Who am I to disagree?  
I travel the world and the **seven** seas  
Everybody’s looking for something_

Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics

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**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/78 "2002-07-17T21:49:24Z")

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Team 1

In A Little While - U2

_A man dreams **one** day to fly  
A man takes a rocket ship into the skies  
He lives on a star that’s dying in the night  
And follows in the trail, the scatter of light_

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/79 "2002-07-17T21:50:21Z")

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**Team One**

Forty Hour Week, Alabama

_Hello Detroit auto workers, let me thank you for your time  
You work a **forty** hour week for a livin’, just to send it on down the line_

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**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 17, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/80 "2002-07-17T22:04:43Z")

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Team 2

_Round **six** , or maybe **seven** , in walked Captain Farrell  
I woke up, grabbed my pistols, and I shot him with both barrels_

Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica (or Thin Lizzy, if you’re a square;) )

Boy, that song pops up a lot, doesn’t it?

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