# Lyrics that make you smile every time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333 "2011-03-29T02:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/21 "2011-03-29T16:07:36Z")
_‘Will Smith don’t gotta cuss in his raps to sell records’; well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too!_ - Eminem "The Real Slim Shady " ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/22 "2011-03-29T16:15:14Z")
_"Yeah, my blood’s so mad feels like coagulatin’ I’m sitting here just contemplatin’’_ Barry McGuire- Eve of Destruction ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/23 "2011-03-29T16:17:07Z")
I’ve got a bike You can ride it if you like Its got a basket a bell that rings and things that make it look good I’d give it to you if I could but I borrowed it. - Bike, Pink Floyd The sunshine bores the daylights out of me. - Rocks Off, Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/24 "2011-03-29T16:30:05Z")
It turns girls on that I’m mysterious I tell 'em I don’t want nothing serious 'cause even on a slow day I can have a three way Chat with two women at one time I’m so much cooler online -Online, Brad Paisley ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/25 "2011-03-29T16:49:02Z")
Pretty much every Lil Wayne song. Example from “6 Foot 7 Foot”: “mind so sharp, I f-ck around and cut my head off real n-gga all day and tomorrow but these muthaf-ckas talking crazy like they jaw broke” “people say I’m borderline crazy, sorta kinda woman of my dreams, I don’t sleep so I can’t find her you n-ggas are gelatin, peanuts to an elephant I got through that sentence like a subject and a predicate” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/26 "2011-03-29T17:43:54Z")
I never saw that cold equation algebra behind your face. That wrote me off as a bad transaction. Your abacus spoke deadly sense. -Chinatown Calculation, Doug & The Slugs Well, I’ve been a jolly tinker For forty years or more Oh, but such a rusty hole as that I never blocked before Well, indeed I didn’t Don’t you know I didn’t? To me rightful loora laddie Well, indeed I didn’t -The Jolly Tinker We had five million hogs, And six million dogs, Seven million barrels of porter. We had eight million sides of poor blind horses’ hides In the hold of the Irish Rover. -The Irish Rover Put away with your pills, it’ll cure all ills, Be ye Pagan, Christian or Jew, Take off your coat and grease your throat With a bucket of the Mountain Dew. -Mountain Dew ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/27 "2011-03-29T18:35:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The end of Tom Lehrer’s “Oedipus Rex”: > He gets points for, having written an entire song with lines rhyming with “Rex”, then finding a rhyme for “Oedipus” When they see us coming, the birdies all try and hide, but they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide! Poisoning Pigeons In The Park, by Prof. Tom Lehrer Everything he sings makes me smile! ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/28 "2011-03-29T18:38:18Z")
“Really love your peaches want to shake your tree.” ~ The Joker (Steve Miller Band) ---
**Author:** ![irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irritant)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/29 "2011-03-29T19:00:57Z")
“I’m long distance to my girl and I’m talking on the cellular, She said that she was sorry and I said, yeah, the hell you were.” – Beastie Boys About every other line on that album, really. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/30 "2011-03-29T19:19:47Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > You wouldn’t find that so funny if you were workin’ on a sex farm, **tdn**. 😉 I wouldn’t have to work on a sex farm, woman, if you’d gimme some money. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/31 "2011-03-29T21:37:04Z")
Syd Barrett’s whole _Effervescing Elephant_ song, but particularly this stretch that shouldn’t work musically, but does. Oh yeah! And the message was spread And the zebra, mongoose, and the dirty hippopotamus who Wallowed in the mud and chewed His spicy hippo-plankton food And tended to ignore the word Preferring to survey a herd Of stupid water bison Oh yeah! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2011, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/32 "2011-03-29T23:34:02Z")
Beastie Boys _Intergalactic_: \*When I wrote graffiti my name was Slop If my rap’s soup my beats is stock Step from the tables as I start to chop I’m a lumber jack DJ Adrock If you try to knock me you’ll get mocked I’ll stir fry you in my wok Your knees’ll start shaking and your fingers pop Like a pinch on the neck from Mr. Spock \* ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/33 "2011-03-30T00:48:02Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I wouldn’t have to work on a sex farm, woman, if you’d gimme some money. Maybe, if you wouldn’t break like the wind. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/34 "2011-03-30T02:06:20Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Maybe, if you wouldn’t break like the wind. You two need to have some cups and cakes already…what a gay time it will be! ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/35 "2011-03-30T02:32:49Z")
John Prine - “Fish & Whistle” _Father forgive us for what we must do You forgive us, we’ll forgive you We’ll forgive each other ‘till we both turn blue then we’ll whistle & go fishin’ in heaven_ Also a hearty second (or third or whatever) for “Cover of the _Rolling Stone_” ---
**Author:** ![NotBob13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e19b73/32.png) [@NotBob13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotBob13)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/36 "2011-03-30T02:42:28Z")
" I shoot an arrow like cupid, I use a word that don’t mean nuttin, like lupid" Humpty Dance By Humpty Hump “Give me a sister, I can’t resist 'er, red beans and rice didn’t miss her.” Baby Got Back By Sir Mix-alot ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/37 "2011-03-30T03:35:35Z")
> [@NotBob13](#): > > “Give me a sister, I can’t resist 'er, red beans and rice didn’t miss her.” > > Baby Got Back > By Sir Mix-alot Also: “So your girlfriend rolls a Honda, playing workout tapes by Fonda, but Fonda ain’t got a motor in the back of her Honda, my anaconda don’t want none unless you got buns, hon” ---
**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/38 "2011-03-30T05:03:54Z")
Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream… Wave upon wave of demented avengers ride cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream. Have you heard the news? The dogs are dead! You better stay home and do as your told Get out of the road if you wanna grow old. Pink Floyd: Animals - Sheep I always get a wry smile on my face at the end of this wonderful album… The imagery of the sheep turning on the wolf in a violent display is simply awesome. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/39 "2011-03-30T05:05:22Z")
“Another mule is kickin’ in your stall.” Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333/40 "2011-03-30T14:26:13Z")
Sundays: I kicked a Boy “When the weather’s fine, when it’s sunny outside Think about the time I kicked a boy till he cried” sung in possibly one of the sweetest voices to ever grace alternative pop. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lyrics-that-make-you-smile-every-time/576333.md?page=3)