# 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:** 30
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/581 "2002-05-03T13:20:10Z")
**happyheathen** , I think my average is higher than that! Which of the songs I posted would you put in the non-dreck category? Heartlight? Love is a Battlefield? DIVORCE? Relax? He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)? Nah, dreck, all of 'em. One more: In touch with the ground I’m on the hunt I’m after you Smell like I sound, I’m lost in a crowd And I’m hungry like the wolf Straddle the line, in discord and rhyme I’m on the hunt I’m after you Mouth is alive with juices like wine And I’m hungry like the wolf ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/582 "2002-05-03T14:56:06Z")
I - I been watchin’ you, I think I want to know ya (know ya)… ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/583 "2002-05-03T16:01:15Z")
Oyee oyee oh ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/584 "2002-05-03T22:41:41Z")
“I look over yonder, what do I see? The sun is risin’, most definately. A new day’s comin’, people are changin’, Ain’t it beautiful? Crystal Blue Persuasion…” [sub]Do the Hustle![/sub] ---
**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 4, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/585 "2002-05-04T01:09:42Z")
Don’t look so sad, I know it’s over But life goes on, and this old world will keep on turning Let’s just be glad we had some time to spend together There’s no need to watch the bridges that we’re burning. Lay you head upon my pillow Hold your warm and tender body close to mine Hear the whisper of the raindrops blowing soft against the window And make believe you love me, one more time For the good times. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/586 "2002-05-04T01:31:23Z")
"Dreams they’re for those who sleep, Life is for us to keep, And if you’re wond’ring What this song is leading to I want to make it with you I really think that we can make it girl…" ---
**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 4, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/587 "2002-05-04T01:59:14Z")
I prayed and prayed, to the Lord To send you back to me But when you came, to me it was Only in, my-ie-ie-ie dreams Maybe… “Maybe”, by the Chantels entered the top ten in January, 1958. ---
**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 4, 2002, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/588 "2002-05-04T04:55:29Z")
[i}I found her diary underneath a tree, And started reading about me…{/i} ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ---
**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 4, 2002, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/589 "2002-05-04T04:59:17Z")
Preview is my _friend_! Preview is my _friend_! Preview is my _friend_! Preview is my _friend_! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/590 "2002-05-04T05:34:55Z")
It is where you first posted “Diary” 😃 [sub]When I was seventeen, it was a very good year…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/591 "2002-05-04T22:05:52Z")
did you really think I was done with you? "The continent of Atlantis was an island Which lay before the great flood In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean So great an area of land, that from her western shores Those beautiful sailors journeyed To the South and the North Americas with ease In their ships with painted sails. Way down below the ocean where I want to be She made me…" ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2002, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/592 "2002-05-05T02:47:15Z")
> [@](#): > > "The continent of Atlantis was an island > Which lay before the great flood > In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean > So great an area of land, that from her western shores > Those beautiful sailors journeyed > To the South and the North Americas with ease > In their ships with painted sails. > > Way down below the ocean where I want to be > She made me…" A.K.A. The song that plays in the background as Billy Bats gets beaten to deathin a bar. (If you’ve seen the movie I’m referencing, you’ll know what I’m talking about.) Anyway…don’t want to leave out lip-synched dreck: “Girl you know it’s true Ooh, ooh, ohh, I love you” ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/593 "2002-05-05T03:20:04Z")
::deb once again enters with another current song that is dreck:: So I cried, I prayed and I begged Love me love me say that you love me fool me fool me go on and fool me love me love me pretend that you love me leave me leave me just say that you need me _cough, cough_ gah that is bad. ---
**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 5, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/594 "2002-05-05T03:30:32Z")
Big ole Ruby Red Dress, wanders ‘round the town Talkin’ to herself now, sometimes sittin’ down Don’t you get too close now, Ruby runs away Poor ole Ruby red dress, born a sorry day I can hear her say Leave me alone, won’t you leave me alone Please leave me alone Now leave me alone, leave me alone Please leave me alone, yes leave me alone Leave me alone, won’t you leave me alone Please leave me alone Now leave me alone, leave me alone Just leave me alone, oh leave me ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/595 "2002-05-05T03:39:32Z")
sure smells like c/w manure in here, all of a sudden 😛 “You fill up my senses like a night in a forest, Like the mountains in springtime, Like a walk in the rain, like a storm in the desert, Like a sleepy blue ocean. You fill up my senses, come fill me again.” Mr. Deutschendorf strikes again ---
**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 5, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/596 "2002-05-05T17:25:08Z")
errrrrr… Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) by Helen Reddy. #27 song of 1973 - Billboard Pop Charts. Meanwhile - remember Gilbert O’Sullivan? Told you once before And I won´t tell you no more Get down, get down, get down You´re a bad dog baby But I still want you ´round You give me the creeps When you jump on your feet So get down, get down, get down Keep your hands to yourself I´m strictly out of bounds Once upon a time I drank a little wine Was as happy as could be, happy as could be Now I´m just like a cat on a hot tin roof Baby what do you think you´re doin´ to me ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/597 "2002-05-05T18:07:49Z")
“Oh, you can kiss me on a Monday a Monday a Monday; is very very good Or you can kiss me on a Tuesday a Tuesday a Tuesday; in fact I wish you would Or you can kiss me on a Wednesday a Thursday a Friday and Saturday is best But never ever on a Sunday a Sunday a Sunday 'Cause that’s my day of rest…” ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/598 "2002-05-06T00:19:02Z")
I got a letter from back home the other day – They’re all fine, and the crops is high – And down at the end, my Mama said, “You know, Old Rivers died.” I’m just sitting here on this new-plowed earth, Tryin’ to find me a little shade. And with the sun beating down, 'cross the field I see That mule, Old Rivers…and me. Say, one of these days I’m gonna climb that Mountain; Walk up there among them clouds, Where the cotton’s high and the corn’s a-growin’, And there ain’t no fields to plow. Old Rivers Walter Brennan ---
**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 6, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/599 "2002-05-06T04:01:11Z")
I stood on the corner Waiting for you to come along So my heart could be satisfied If my wish would come true I’d spend my life with you Under the moon, under the stars, and under the sky Whats your name, Is it Mary or Sue? What’s your name… Heh! ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/600 "2002-05-06T04:14:46Z")
Another ‘River’ song: "Last Saturday evenin’ came to the old oak tree It stands beside the river where you were to meet me On the ground your glove I found With a note addressed to me It read “Dear love, I’ve done you wrong” “Now I must set you free” “No longer can I live with this hurt and this sin” “I just couldn’t tell you that guy was just a friend” _Moody river, more deadly than the vainest knife Moody river, your muddy water took my baby’s life_" Moody River Pat Boone [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=31)