# Great-Grandson of the Song Game Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 23, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454 "2002-07-23T21:56:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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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 23, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/1 "2002-07-23T21:56:35Z")

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Current standings are:

Team 1: 😃 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂  
Team 2: 😃 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

It’s Team 2’s turn to pick the new word!

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**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/2 "2002-07-23T22:15:54Z")

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How bout body parts? Hands, eyes, legs, kidneys, whatever.

**Team 2 -**

Stagger Lee, The Grateful Dead

_As Stagger Lee lit a cigarette, she shot him in the **balls**  
Blew the smoke off her revolver, had him dragged to City Hall_

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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 23, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/3 "2002-07-23T23:09:22Z")

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Team 1

The Ballad Of Tom Jones - Space and Cerys Matthews

_Still wanna poison your pizza  
And I still wanna cut off your **nuts** _

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**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 23, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/4 "2002-07-23T23:14:54Z")

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Team Two:

_Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb  
Mother, do you think they’ll like this song  
Mother, do you think they’ll try to break my **balls**  
Oooh, aaah, Mother, should I build a wall?_

Mother | Pink Floyd

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**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/5 "2002-07-23T23:32:43Z")

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Man, I sense a theme developing here. (which I will do my best to break away from :D)

Team One:

_Please could you stop the noise  
I’m trying to get some rest  
From all the unborn chikken  
Voices in my **head** _

“Paranoid Android” – Radiohead

(Ha! I **finally** got a post in to one of these song game threads! :D)

F\_X

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**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 23, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/6 "2002-07-23T23:34:30Z")

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The Artificially Enhanced Team Two:

\*Corporal Clegg had a wooden **leg**  
He won it in the war, in 1944  
Corporal Clegg had a medal, too  
In orange, red, and blue  
He found it in the zoo \*

Corporal Clegg | Pink Floyd

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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 23, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/7 "2002-07-23T23:45:53Z")

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**Team One**

Queen of My Double-Wide Trailer, Sammy Kershaw

_I made her the queen of my double-wide trailer  
With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck  
Sometimes she runs and I’ve got to trail her  
Dang her black **heart** and her pretty red **neck**._

I’m ba-ack. 😉

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**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/8 "2002-07-23T23:46:54Z")

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**Team 2 -**

Ballad Of A Thin Man, Bob Dylan

_You see this one- **eyed** midget  
And he’s shouting the word “now”_

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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 23, 2002, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/9 "2002-07-23T23:52:25Z")

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Team 1

Where The Streets Have No Name - U2

_I want to feel, sunlight on my **face**  
See that dust cloud disappear without a trace_

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**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 23, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/10 "2002-07-23T23:54:00Z")

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The Fully Enigmatic Team Two:

_You raise the blade, you make the change  
You re-arrange me ‘til I’m sane  
You lock the door, throw away the key  
And there’s someone in my **head**  
But it’s not me_

Brain Damage | Pink Floyd

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**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/11 "2002-07-24T00:09:16Z")

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**Team 1**

That’s Amore - Dean Martin

_When the moon hits your **eye** like a big pizza pie  
That’s amore…_

😛

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**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/12 "2002-07-24T00:09:57Z")

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\*\*Team 2 \*\*

Blackbird, The Beatles

_Blackbird singing in the dead of night  
Take these sunken **eyes** and learn to see_

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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 24, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/13 "2002-07-24T00:33:24Z")

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Back to Team One for me…

_And walking  
 **Arm** to **Arm** ,  
I will follow.  
 **Arm** to **Arm** ,  
I will lead._

**Arm** to **Arm** - Catch 22

(I can’t believe my original game has lasted 4 threads…)

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**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/14 "2002-07-24T00:44:01Z")

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**Team 2 -**

Casey Jones, The Grateful Dead

_The trouble with you is the trouble with me  
Got two good **eyes** but we still don’t see_

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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:** [July 24, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/15 "2002-07-24T00:49:13Z")

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Team 1:

Elvis Presley’s “All Shook Up”

Well, my HANDS are shaky and my KNEES are weak.  
I can’t seem to stand on my own two FEET."

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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 24, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/16 "2002-07-24T00:51:21Z")

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**Team One**

The Change, Garth Brooks

_One **hand** reaches out  
And pulls a lost soul from harm  
While a thousand more go unspoken for  
And they say What good have you done  
By saving just this one?_

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/17 "2002-07-24T00:56:38Z")

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[sub]psst … how do you get on a team … I fell asleep in that class.[/sub]

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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 24, 2002, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/18 "2002-07-24T00:59:08Z")

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Pick the team opposite of the last person to join, **Jack**. You’d be on Team 2 I believe…

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**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/19 "2002-07-24T01:00:24Z")

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**jack** , just join in at any point. Since team 1 had the last post, right now you’d be on \*\*Team 2 \*\*.

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**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/120454/20 "2002-07-24T01:01:21Z")

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**Team 2**  
“Mother I can feel  
The soil falling over my **head** …”

I know it’s over -The Smiths

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