# How many songs start out with a number? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 13, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672 "2016-08-13T15:47:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/21 "2016-08-13T17:06:06Z")
“One of these Days” by Pink Floyd ---
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_“All Together Now”_ - **The Beatles** One, two, three, four Can I have a little more? Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, I love you ---
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**Number** 54/ The house with the bamboo door House of Bamboo - Southern Culture on tne Skids ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/24 "2016-08-13T17:14:26Z")
“One less bell to answer…” Fifth Dimension “One fine day, you’ll look at me…” The Chiffons (Carole King) ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/25 "2016-08-13T17:17:12Z")
**"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)" by Simon and Garfunkel** 1, 2, 3, 4… Slow down, you move too fast… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/26 "2016-08-13T17:24:56Z")
_[1 2 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7usnXB4ZRIU)_, by Len Barry _Three Coins in The Fountain_, Frank Sinatra ---
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“Two divided by love…” The Grass Roots ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/28 "2016-08-13T17:39:43Z")
The [Pinball Number Count](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBHt8DVu9LY) by the Pointer Sisters deserves special mention, because the _only_ lyrics it has are the numbers 1 to 12. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/29 "2016-08-13T17:47:57Z")
The Magic Number by De La Soul “Three, that’s the magic number.” ---
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“\*\*Forty Days and Forty Nights \*\*since my baby left this town…” - Muddy Waters ---
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> [@breezman](#): > > 867-5309, Tommy Tutone > s The first word of that song is “Hey!” And the numbers don’t come for a bit. ---
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“ **40,000 Headmen** couldn’t make me change my mind…” - Traffic ---
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One of These Days, Pink Floyd “One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces” Thirty Days in the Hole, Humble Pie ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/34 "2016-08-13T18:49:11Z")
One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do. Two can be as bad as one, It’s the loneliest number since number one. by Harry Nilsson, famously covered by Three Dog Night ---
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“22,000 Days” - The Moody Blues ---
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Hey, people. Please read my OP. I am looking for songs that START out with a number in their lyrics!!! Where the first word in the lyrics is a number. Not the title, the lyrics!! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/37 "2016-08-13T19:03:16Z")
Huey Lewis and the News-Heart and Soul Two o’clock this morning If she should come a calling ---
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> [@mbh](#): > > One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do. > Two can be as bad as one, > It’s the loneliest number since number one. > > by Harry Nilsson, famously covered by Three Dog Night ^ ^ ^ So obvious, it was mentioned in the OP. _One Hundred Years_ by Five For Fighting. _15 there’s still time for you Time to buy and time to lose 15, there’s never a wish better than this When you only got a hundred years to live…_ ---
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“[Four is Magic Number](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DyGP4Yk4Zo)” by Loudon Wainwright III ---
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Woolly Bully, I think, but I don’t speak Spanish. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672.md?page=3)