# How many songs start out with a number?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672>\
**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:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/121 "2016-10-08T23:39:10Z")

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> [@DrCube](#):
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> That’s “tin” soldiers.

Well, that does make more sense. 10 was a rather odd number of soldiers ,  
( ok I know 10 is an _EVEN_ number)

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/122 "2016-10-08T23:51:21Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> ^ ^ ^  
> So obvious, it was mentioned in the OP.
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> _One Hundred Years_ by Five For Fighting.
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> _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…_

> [@Bullitt](#):
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> I don’t think that works: the first word in the song is “I’m”.

I haven’t checked in to the thread since then, but I stand corrected.

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**Author:** ![Graymalkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@Graymalkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graymalkin)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/123 "2016-10-09T01:36:22Z")

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One Two Three Four!  
She was just seventeen…

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/124 "2016-10-09T04:20:10Z")

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“TWO girls for every boy!..”  
(Surf City)

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-start-out-with-a-number/762672/125 "2016-10-09T20:11:29Z")

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Doesn’t Tori Amos have an a capella song that begins “Five A.M., Sunday morning (something something) …”? I can’t remember the name of it just now.

Seventy-six trombones led the big parade! A hundred and ten coronets close behiiiiinnd…" (from “the Music Man”)

Did anybody mention “One love, one heart, let’s get together and feel all right” by Bob Marley?

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