# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/121 "2002-07-18T07:52:35Z")
**Team One** Shut Up And Drive, Chely Wright _Turn the radio on, to drown out the sound of goodbye Blink back the tears, show me you’ve still got your pride Just get yourself lost in a **sad** country song Those guys that they play know just what to say Turn the radio on_ ---
**Author:** ![Stiletto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Stiletto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stiletto)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/122 "2002-07-18T08:01:18Z")
\*\*Team 2 \*\* > [@](#): > > This one goes out to the one I **love** > This one goes out to the one I left behind > A simple prop to occupy my time > This one goes out to the one I **love** The One I Love - **R.E.M.** ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/123 "2002-07-18T08:09:27Z")
Team 1 Don’t Look Back In Anger - Oasis \*So Sally can wait, she knows it’s too late as we’re walking on by Her soul slides away, but don’t look back in **anger** I hear you say \* ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/124 "2002-07-18T08:12:03Z")
**Team 2** _When Jimmy came back home he was **suprized** that they had gone He asked me all the details of the train that they went on Some people they are **scared** to croak But Jimmy drank until he choked And took the road to heaven in the morning_ Sally McLannan—The Pogues \*you know, ahem, that could’ve worked for the **train** thread, the **people** thread, OR the **heaven** thread ….No, no, it’s really nothing \* ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/125 "2002-07-18T08:23:41Z")
Team # 1: \*You’re the one who makes me **happy** honey You’re the sun who makes me shine When you’re around I’m always laughing I want to make you mine I close my eyes And see you before me Think I would die If you were to ignore me A fool could see Just how much I **adore** you\* The Divinyls - I Touch Myself ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/126 "2002-07-18T09:15:16Z")
**Team 2** **Hate** and war –it ‘s the only thing we got today Hate and war—Clash ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/127 "2002-07-18T11:54:22Z")
This can’t mean no one’s interested any more…can it? ☹ Anyway, I’ll do what I usually do and ignore what I don’t like and pretend everything’s OK. 🙂 Which means: W’s just a letter one X ahead of Y, I’m no longer in Hell, AND… **Team 2** gets a point! **Team 1** : 😃 🙂 🙂 🙂 **Team 1** : 😃 🙂 🙂 🙂 There ya have it: Even Steven. Since the place names never really got goin’, how bout trying it again? No objections…? Very well, proper place names it is. **Team 2** _IN the year of our lord 1806 we set sail from the cold quay of **Cork** Down below in the hold was a cargo of bricks for the grand city hall in **New York** _ The Irish Rover–The Pogues ---
**Author:** ![Nortia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Nortia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nortia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/128 "2002-07-18T12:51:21Z")
Team 1 New York - U2 _In **New York** freedom looks like too many choices In New York I found a friend to drown out the other voices_ ---
**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 18, 2002, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/129 "2002-07-18T13:08:07Z")
**Team 2** Almost Heaven, **West Virginia** Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains Growing like a breeze Country Roads - John Denver ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/130 "2002-07-18T13:52:57Z")
**Team 1** Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon _Awooooooooo! The werewolves of **London** Awooooo!_ 😛 ---
**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 18, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/131 "2002-07-18T13:59:38Z")
**Team 2** There is a town in north **Ontario** Dreams, comfort and memory to spare In my mind I still need a place to go All my changes were there. Helpless - Neil Young ---
**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 18, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/132 "2002-07-18T15:53:48Z")
wake up team one! ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/133 "2002-07-18T18:53:07Z")
Geez, a girl can’t even get a drunk on, huh? 😃 _Learn to swim See you down in **Arizona** Bay_ Tool - Aenima ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/134 "2002-07-18T18:57:55Z")
Anybody else out there, or has Team 1 lost another round (and I missed three categories?!)? ---
**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 18, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/135 "2002-07-18T19:15:53Z")
Well, as Team 1’s missed the deadline by a sizeable margin, the score is now: **Team 1** 😃 🙂 🙂 🙂 **Team 2** 😃 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 Hoo-ha! Now, a new topic…“man”. I’ll start us up: Team 2 _Goldfinger He’s the **man** , the man with the Midas touch…_ Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/136 "2002-07-18T19:56:10Z")
Team 1: _spread me open, sticking to my pointy ribs are all your infants in abortion cribs I was born into this everything turns to shit the boy that you loved is the **man** that you fear_ The Man That You Fear - Marilyn Manson ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/137 "2002-07-18T20:48:33Z")
Well, no wonder Team 1 is losing, everyone defected to Team 2 ☹ :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/138 "2002-07-18T20:57:28Z")
What’s the time limit again? Two hours? \ ---
**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 18, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/139 "2002-07-18T21:00:07Z")
\*\*team two/b] There’s a **man** who leads a life of danger To everyone he meets he stays a stranger With every move he makes another chance he takes Odds are he won’t live to see tomorrow Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers ---
**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 18, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/140 "2002-07-18T21:03:35Z")
Lola sez: > [@](#): > > Well, no wonder Team 1 is losing, everyone defected to Team 2 Muuwaahhahahaha! My little plan is working then! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373.md?page=8)