# 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:** 28
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/541 "2002-05-01T03:36:05Z")
Little surfer, Little one, Made my heart come all undone, Do you love me, do you Surfer girl… \ ---
**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:** [May 1, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/542 "2002-05-01T03:43:37Z")
Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within. Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes they don’t tell the truth, uh Smiling faces, smiling faces tell lies and I got proof. The truth is in the eyes 'Cause the eyes don’t lie, amen Remember a smile is just a frown turned upside down My friend let me tell you ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/543 "2002-05-01T03:58:33Z")
Walk like a man Oh, how you tried to cut me down to size Tellin’ dirty lies to my friends But my own father said “Give her up, don’t bother The world isn’t comin’ to an end” Walk like a man, talk like a man Walk like a man my son No woman’s worth crawlin’ on the earth So walk like a man, my son ---
**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:** [May 1, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/544 "2002-05-01T04:02:36Z")
Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean The unborn grass lies waiting for it’s coat to turn to green The snowbird sings the song he always sings And speaks to me of flowers that will bloom again in spring When I was young my heart was young then too Anything that it would tell me that’s the thing that I would do But now I feel such emptiness within For the thing that I want most in life’s the thing that I can’t win Spread your tiny wings and fly away And take the snow back with you where it came from on that day The one I love forever is untrue And if I could you know that I would fly away with you ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/545 "2002-05-01T04:03:21Z")
Brrrrrrrr black slacks I wear a red bow tie, black slacks They say me oh my, black slacks With a watch chain down to my knees I ain’t nothin’ but a real cool breeze Brrrrrrrr black slacks I’m a cool daddy-o, black slacks I’m rarin’ to go, black slacks The chicks all say I’m the cat’s pajamas Always run around with crazy little mamas “Black Slacks” by Joe Bennett and The Sparkletones hit the top 10 in August, 1957. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/546 "2002-05-01T04:18:39Z")
He wears tan shoes with pink shoelaces, A polka-dot vest, And man, oh, man - Tan shoes with pink shoelaces, And a big panama with a purple hat band… Pink Shoe Laces Dodie Stevens ---
**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:** [May 1, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/547 "2002-05-01T16:27:52Z")
I worked at a country-western radio station in 1984 - the owner wanted us to play this song TWICE an HOUR, he said that our listeners wanted “a little good news” and that it was the most perfect song he’d ever heard…actually it’s the most perfect DRECK I’ve ever heard… I rolled out this morning Kids had the mornin’ news show on Bryant Gumbel was talkin’ ‘bout the fighting in Lebanon Some senator was squawkin’ 'bout the bad economy It’s gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policy There’s a local paper rolled up in a rubber band One more sad story’s one more than I can stand Just once how I’d like to see the headline say “Not much to print today, can’t find nothin’ bad to say”, because Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town Nobody OD’ed, nobody burned a single buildin’ down Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain We sure could use a little good news today :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/548 "2002-05-01T19:03:42Z")
Pop/Rock/R&B on this thread (folk tolerated). C/W, Disco, Novelty, Big Band, Classical, et. al. elsewhere. thank you very much now, for Jonathan Livingston Seagull Neil Diamond "And we dance To a whispered voice Overheard by the soul Undertook by the heart And you may know it If you may know it While the sand Would become the stone Which begat the spark Turned to living bone Holy, holy Sanctus, sanctus" not much, but it’ll do for now… ---
**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:** [May 1, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/549 "2002-05-01T21:10:06Z")
In the meantime, as we argue over genres… Pretty smile lovely face and a warm breeze now I need you lady You’re my no tell lover Every night in a different place I’ll meet you tender lady You’re my no tell lover Everyone keeps tellin’ me that this affair’s not meant to be Even though I need you night and day Walk away if you see me coming, even if it’s you I’m lovin’ Every minute is an hour every day’s a lonely lifetime You’re my no tell lover The little time that we spend together just can’t last forever You’re my no tell lover Everyone keeps tellin’ me that this affair’s not meant to be Even though I need you night and day Walk away if you see me coming even though it’s you I’m lovin’ I want her I can’t leave her I won’t live without her There’s nothing left to say I want her I can’t leave her ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/550 "2002-05-01T23:21:01Z")
Are we reduced to _Chicago_? If you must resort to such ‘ammunition’, at least do something **somebody** remembers… [sub]If you leave me now, You’ll take away the biggest part of me… Twenty-five or six to fou-ORE [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/551 "2002-05-02T01:38:10Z")
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings These are a few of my favorite things [sub]Yipee, we’re all gonna to die…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![flygirl99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/46a35a/32.png) [@flygirl99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flygirl99)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/552 "2002-05-02T02:58:26Z")
The road is loooong with many a winding turn that leads us to who knows where who knows where, but I’m strooooong, strong enough to carararry him, he ain’t heavy he’s my brother So on we go, his welfare is my concern, no burden is he, to bear, we’ll get there. For I knooooow, he would not encumber me. He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother If I’m laden at all, I’m laden with sadness that everyone’s heart isn’t filled with the gladness of loove, for one anoooother. It’s a long long road, from which there is no return. While we’re on our way to live, why not share? And the load doesn’t weigh me down at all. He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother. He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother. I only read 7 pages props to happy heathen ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/553 "2002-05-02T03:01:57Z")
What about the Yeti on the roof? ---
**Author:** ![flygirl99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/46a35a/32.png) [@flygirl99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flygirl99)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/554 "2002-05-02T03:31:44Z")
bum bum bum bum ba bum bum bum I must be going (don’t go) my heart is showing (don’t go) I better hurry away, bum bum bum bum if I don’t leave I’ll be sorry What will my Mary say? Your lips are thrilling, my arms are willing I know that I shouldn’t stay If I don’t leave I’ll be sorry What will my Mary say? What would I do if she should need me and find me kissin you? She’s always trusted me completely her poor heart would break in two. I must be going (don’t go) my heart is showing (don’t go) I better hurry away, bum bum bum bum if I don’t leave I’ll be sorry What will my Mary say? if I don’t leave I’ll be sorry What will my Maaa ry say? (don’t go, don’t go) ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/555 "2002-05-02T03:37:25Z")
Welcome to the party! and, before a Mod gets upset - pls do not quote entire lyrics - the CR is very sensitive to copyrights - small snippets fall under the “Fair Use” exception of the law - entire songs do not. 🙂 \*\*Ringo - \*\* no lyrics, no points 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/556 "2002-05-02T06:21:19Z")
You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/557 "2002-05-02T09:45:26Z")
Now wait a minute, **Happy**. You were the one who said “No show tunes” so now you give us _The Sound of Music_? Just for that: _Strangers In the Night Exchanging glances Wondering in the night What were the chances We’d be sharing love Before the night was through._ Oh yes, since we’re now at page 12, \*I’m Still Standin’ Better than I ever did Lookin’ like a true survivor Feelin’ like a little kid. I’m Still Standin’ After all this time Pickin’ up the pieces of my life Without you on my mind. I’m Still Standin’! Yeah, yeah, yeah!\* CJ ---
**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:** [May 2, 2002, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/558 "2002-05-02T16:17:34Z")
Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko-Bop Shimmy Shimmy Bop Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko-Bop Shimmy Shimmy Bop Sittin’ in a native hut All alone and blue Sittin’ in a native hut Wonderin’ what to do Along came a native girl Did a native dance It was like in paradise Put me in a trance ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/559 "2002-05-02T18:32:04Z")
**CJ -** Jes’ looking to see if anybody was paying attention 😉 “From out of the East a stranger came, A law book in his hand, a man. The kind of a man the west would need To tame a troubled land; Cause the point of a gun was the only law That Liberty understood. When it came to shootin’ straight and fast, He was mighty good. When it came to shootin’ straight and fast, He was mighty good. Many a man would face his gun And many a man would fall, The man who shot Liberty Valance, He shot Liberty Valance, He was the bravest of them all.” ---
**Author:** ![flygirl99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/46a35a/32.png) [@flygirl99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flygirl99)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/560 "2002-05-02T18:32:21Z")
Here’s some new dreck - oh god (sorry heathen) I hate this song! Who can say where the road goes where the day flows only time and who can say if your love grows as your heart shows only time [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=29)