# I Sing of Super Powers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841 "2018-05-09T03:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/21 "2018-05-09T20:51:08Z")
Hope you never get stalked by Super Stalker. _I will follow him, wherever he may go…_ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/22 "2018-05-09T22:40:22Z")
I’m not sure these are exactly super powers, but you don’t want to mess with Bo Diddley: > [@](#): > > I walk 47 miles of barbed wire > I use a cobra-snake for a necktie > I got a brand new house on the roadside > Made from rattlesnake hide > I got a brand new chimney made on top > Made out of a human skull > > … > > Tombstone hand and a graveyard mine > Just 22 and I don’t mind dying > … > > I rode around the town, use a rattlesnake whip > Take it easy arlene, don’t give me no lip ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/23 "2018-05-09T23:05:13Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Hope you never get stalked by Super Stalker. > _I will follow him, wherever he may go…_ What if I meet the woman who can bend me and shape me? Why, she can make this beggar a king! But on the other hand, she can make me a clown! Or a poet! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/24 "2018-05-09T23:05:47Z")
You don’t tug on Supermans cape, You don’t spit in the wind, You don’t pull the mask off of old Lone Ranger, And don’t mess around with Jim… By, Jim Croce ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/25 "2018-05-10T02:49:15Z")
I am the God of Hellfire! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/26 "2018-05-10T02:50:29Z")
Don McLean’s _Everybody Loves Me Baby_: > [@](#): > > Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve and the sky turns blue Traffic’s _40,000 Headmen_ has: > [@](#): > > Filling up my pockets, even stuffed it up my nose > I must have weighed a hundred tons between my head and toes and > [@](#): > > So I turned around and forty thousand headmen bit the dirt > Firing twenty shotguns each and man, it really hurt > But luckily for me they had to stop and then reload > And by the time they’d done that I was heading down the road ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/27 "2018-05-10T02:59:18Z")
> [@Peanuthead](#): > > I am the God of Hellfire! I held that in reserve in case the thread bogged down! Carry on. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/28 "2018-05-10T03:03:19Z")
I’ve got something between my legs That’ll make a dead man come. – Lucille Bogan, “Shave 'em Dry” ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/29 "2018-05-10T04:56:57Z")
Does it count if it’s just straight up a song about a superhero? _I save the world from evil monsters I can make a lion swallow soup I have superhuman strength spend my holidays on the sun_ “Lucky Jones” by Z, lyrics by Ahmet Zappa iirc ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/30 "2018-05-10T08:50:23Z")
Far too much bragging and boastfulness going on in these songs. A much more humble and proportionate tune by[David O’Doherty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgkLdc7jZHk). ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/31 "2018-05-10T12:54:41Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > “I am woman, hear me roar” Angie Baby was a special lady. Well , maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/32 "2018-05-10T12:56:32Z")
They keep trying to kill John Barleycorn but nothing stops him. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/33 "2018-05-10T14:44:01Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > But on the other hand, she can make me a clown! Or a poet! I’ve \*been \*a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a clown and a king. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/34 "2018-05-10T14:53:10Z")
Patti Smith, “Easter”: > [@](#): > > I am the spring, the holy ground, > the endless seed of mystery, > the thorn, the veil, the face of grace, > the brazen image, the thief of sleep, > the ambassador of dreams, the prince of peace. > I am the sword, the wound, the stain. > Scorned transfigured child of Cain. > I rend, I end, I return. > Again I am the salt, the bitter laugh. > I am the gas in a womb of light, the evening star, > the ball of sight that leads that sheds the tears of Christ > dying and drying as I rise tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841/35 "2018-05-11T12:30:10Z")
That Air Supply dude’s pretty super: > [@](#): > > I can make the runner stumble > I can make the final block > I can make every tackle at the sound of the whistle > I can make all the stadiums rock > I can make tonight forever > Or I can make it disappear by the dawn > I can make you every promise that has ever been made > And I can make all your demons be gone Smart, too: > [@](#): > > I know just how to whisper > And I know just how to cry > I know just where to find the answers > And I know just how to lie > I know just how to fake it > And I know just how to scheme > I know just when to face the truth > And then I know just when to dream > And I know just where to touch you > And I know just what to prove > I know when to pull you closer > And I know when to let you loose > And I know the night is fading > And I know the time’s gonna fly > And I’m never gonna tell you everything I’ve gotta tell you > But I know I’ve gotta give it a try > And I know the roads to riches > And I know the ways to fame > I know all the rules and then I know how to break 'em > And I always know the name of the game [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-sing-of-super-powers/813841.md?page=1)