# If life is a rock and the radio rolls me... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975 "2002-03-30T22:52:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/361 "2002-04-23T04:09:04Z")
No sugar tonight in my coffee No sugar tonight in my tea No sugar to stand beside me No sugar to run with me Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow Da-un-do-dow dow no no Da-un-do-dow dow da-un-do-dow Da-un-do-dow dow Guess who? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/362 "2002-04-23T04:12:47Z")
Their small town eyes will gape at you In dull surprise when payment due Exceeds accounts received At seventeen. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/363 "2002-04-23T04:14:58Z")
No Sugar Tonight IS by the Guess Who. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/364 "2002-04-23T04:16:04Z")
He remembers the first time he met her He remembers the first thing he said He remembers the first time he held her And the night that she came to his bed He remembers her sweet way of sayin’ “Honey has something gone wrong?” He remembers the fun and the teasin’ And the reason he wrote her this song. I’ll give you a daisy a day Dear I’ll give you a daisy a day I’ll love you until the rivers run still And the four winds we know blow away. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/365 "2002-04-23T04:21:25Z")
now, back to DRECK
 Each time we have a quarrel, it almost breaks my heart, Cause I’m so afraid that we will have to part, Each night I ask the stars up above, Why must I be a teenager in love? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/366 "2002-04-23T04:23:39Z")
I found her diary underneath a tree And started reading about me The words she’d written took me by surprise You’d never read them in her eyes They said that she had found, the love she’d waited for Wouldn’t you know it
 she wouldn’t show it. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/367 "2002-04-23T04:30:06Z")
Baby, I’m-a want you Baby, I’m-a need you You the only one I care enough to hurt about Maybe I’m-a crazy but I just can’t live without Your lovin’ and affection givin’ me direction Like a guiding light to help me through a darkest hour Lately I’m-a prayin’ that you’ll always be-a stayin’ beside me ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/368 "2002-04-23T04:41:56Z")
We were so close, there was no room We bled inside each other’s wounds We all had caught the same disease And we all sang the songs of peace Some came to sing, some came to pray Some came to keep, the dark away So raise the candles high 'Cause if you don’t we could stay black against the sky, oh Oh, raise them higher again And if you do we could stay dry against the rain. Lay down, lay down, lay it all down Let your white birds smile up At the ones who stand and frown ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/369 "2002-04-23T05:00:14Z")
“Lay Down” will be allowed only if you can name the time/place/event/signifigance of the ritual described. I, as one of the ‘candles in the rain’, am qualified to list this song, ARE YOU? heretics defiling the sacred songs of my youth! “Bells will ring The sun will shine (whoa-whoa-whoa) I’ll be his and He’ll be mine We’ll love until The end of time And we’ll never be lonely anymore Because we’re Goin’ to the chapel and we’re Gonna get married Goin’ to the chapel and we’re Gonna get married Gee, I really love you and we’re Gonna get married Goin’ to the chapel of love
” ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/370 "2002-04-23T08:09:34Z")
Some more Zevon: Well I met a girl in the Vieux CarrĂ© Down in Yokahama. She picked me up and she throwed me down I said “Please don’t hurt me, mama” and whoever mentioned “Doggie in the Window” didn’t do the worst verse: I read in the paper there are robbers (roof! roof!) With flashlights that shine in the dark My love needs a doggie to protect him And scare them away with one bark ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/371 "2002-04-23T13:24:28Z")
Oh the shark, babe, Has such teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly whites
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**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/372 "2002-04-23T13:27:46Z")
Judy in disguise, That’s what you are
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**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/373 "2002-04-23T13:35:23Z")
My baby does the hanky panky
 P.S. - **happyheathen** - my apologies for the duplication of Green Tambourine. I should have caught that :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/374 "2002-04-23T13:36:01Z")
I’m Henry the Eighth, I am Henry the Eighth, I am, I am. I got married to the widow next door. She’s been married seven times before. And every one was an Henry, Henry Blah, blah, blah Second verse, same as the first. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/375 "2002-04-23T14:25:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by meezer \* > \*\*Judy in disguise, > That’s what you are
 \*\* I thought that was John Fred & His Playboy Band ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/376 "2002-04-23T14:36:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JohnBckWLD \* > \*\*I thought that was John Fred & His Playboy Band \*\* :eek: My bad. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/377 "2002-04-23T15:20:14Z")
A few more from the annals (anals ?!?) of music history. [li] **The Bee Gee’s:** ”I Started A Joke” – _I started a joke which started the whole world crying[/li]But I didn’t see that the joke was on me
'Till I finally died which started the whole world living_ Finally? Not soon enough in my opinion. [li] **Chad & Jeremy:** ”A Summer Song” – \* Trees swayin’ in the summer breeze. Showin’ off their silver leaves. As we walked by
They say that all good things must end someday. Autumn leaves must fall[/li]But don’t you know that it hurts me so. To say goodbye to you. Wish you didn’t have to go. No, no, no, no\* No editorial comments required here, No No No No says it all for me. Awful, both. But I Nominate, for the **King of Dreck
** [_] **The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band:** ”Buy for Me the Rain” – \* Buy for me the rain, my darling, buy for me the rain
Buy for me the sun, my darling, buy for me the sun
Buy for me the robin, darling, buy for me the wing
But I can buy for you a gravestone, to lay behind your head. Gravestones cheer the living, dear, they’re no use to the dead._ These lyrics are no use to the living, and probably caused a few deaths along the way. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/378 "2002-04-23T20:00:11Z")
“You Are The Sunshine Of My Life That’s Why I’ll Always Stay Around You Are The Apple Of My Eye Forever You’ll Stay In My Heart I Feel Like This Is The Beginning Though I’ve Loved You For A Million Years And If I Thought Our Love Was Ending I’d Find Myself Drowning In My Own Tears” this is the 355[sup]th[/sup] identifiable entry (But, since Rico has yet to justify his inclusion of Lay Down, we’ll call it 354) ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/379 "2002-04-23T20:14:11Z")
No justification needed - any woman who would sing a song like “Brand New Key” is always included in the dreck category as far as I’m concerned
and apparently, you’re older than I am! :rolleyes: In other words, it’s nothing more than a “flower power” song to me. In the meantime
 Rocky Raccoon checked into his room Only to find Gideon’s bible Rocky had come equipped with a gun To shoot off the legs of his rival His rival it seems had broken his dreams By stealing the girl of his fancy Her name was Magil and she called herself Lil But everyone knew her as Nancy ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/380 "2002-04-23T20:35:57Z")
“Glory, glory, psychotherapy Glory, glory, sexuality. Glory,glory, now we can be free As the Id goes marching on
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