The mid-80’s version in St. Louis was “Hey! <pause> Get Laid! Get Fucked!”
Anybody also do this one:
“You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille…”
"You BITCH! You SLUT! You WHORE! You SUCK! You SWALLOW! You BEG! COME BACK FOR MORE!!!”
uhhhh…no
It was the Hey! (pause) Get fucked! Get laid! But I remember an even earlier participation song. You couldn’t play The Trammps Disco Inferno without everybody yelling “The roof! The roof! The roof is on fire! We don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn. Burn, motherfucker. Burn!” This was in the late '70’s.
NC State circa 1987.
It was the “hey, hey what, get laid get fucked” version. I’ve also heard the Margaritaville “where’s the salt, where’s the damn salt” audience participation.
Wow, no kidding. I owe the girlfriend a huge apology on this one. She did this in the car a few weeks ago and I looked at her like she was possessed. She claimed that everyone knew about this. Now I’m no slouch when it comes to things like this, and honestly I’d never heard this one. Simply amazing…
In Wisconsin it was also “Hey! Hey what? Get laid, get fucked.” Everyone was familiar with the original Tommy James version for years, but I only heard the chant after Billy “Fuckin’” Idol covered it in the mid-80’s.
Given the poetic substance of the chant, I suspect that Idol himself is the originator of it and incited his crowds to sing along. But the phenomenon seems to have been too widespread if it were prompted only by the few kids who saw Idol when he blew through town.
Idol first covered the song in '81, But it didn’t hit the mainstream charts until '87 when he relased a version from his live album “Vital Idol” which went to the top of the Billboard charts. That seems like the time period that I first remember hearing the audience participation verse. Obviously, a song with profanity isn’t going to get a lot of airplay on mainstream stations, so I’m wondering:
If the “Vital Idol” album version has the chanting, but the single version which hit the charts had the profanity edited out. Although if the chant was on the album, that doesn’t account for the regional discrepancies in the chant. Maybe it was just the concert-goers sharing their experience with all the other kids at the school dance. In any case, I put my money on Billy Idol being the originator of it.
Thank you Google.
Dooku != crazy 
This always pissed me off.
I was a Billy Idol whore from before he was Billy Idol (he was in a band called Generation X–yes, the appropriation of THAT pisses me off too 
), and Mony Mony was always a surefire way to get me to have a seizure on the dance floor. I LOVED LOVED LOVED that song; had like 10 different remixes of it at one time.
So when this bizarre phenomenon began, a few years later, it always just seemed so wrong.
I thought I was going to be the first one to post about “The roof is on fire!” thing until I sawBiggirl’s post. That was a fun one.
Just dug out my casette copy of “Vital Idol”. No chanting. Also, “Vital Idol” is a remix album, not a live album. While the single version which hit #1 and the accompanying video were live, the version on the album is the “Downtown Mix” remix of the studio version. (Or it’s the quietest live audience in history or the crowd noise was completely removed, even during the “toilet-flush break” sound effect).
That was the version making the Long Island Bar Mitzvah circuit circa '88. I came across a different version a few years later in college (Maryland) which I think was “Get stuffed, get drunk, get laid, get fucked”. Not sure about “stuffed” actually, I may be misremembering. Actually, that may not have been college, just people from MD in summer camp of '88.
Interestingly, by sara’s testimony, it seems “what” morphed into “slut” over a couple of years round these parts.
I have actually wondered in the past how this phenomenon seemed to catch on so quickly over such a large area. No factual answers yet??? (question would probably do better in GQ but it is fun to hear all the different variations).
I’m from small-town Iowa, and all of these experiences were in small-town Iowa as well. 
“Mony Mony” by Tommy James and the Shondells: I graduated from high school in 2001, and although our class never did the chant, or rarely did, I know the kids who were a little older than us (graduated high school in 1993 or thereabouts) would do the chant loudly at dances and still do it at the town’s annual street dance. I could never figure out EXACTLY what they said, but it did go something like, “Hey everybody, get laid, get fucked!” (which would make sense with the 80’s Idol stuff people have mentioned) This was said after the verses: “…saying Mony Mony”; “…come on Mony”; “…feel aright now” etc.). In order to fit it with the music, you kind of say “hey every-body, get laid, get fucked”
Also, for the “Living Next Door To Alice” by Smokie song, I was in a bar and everyone there also changed the “(Pause) Alice?? (Pause) Who the fuck is Alice?” after the verses, “…living next door to Alice”; “…not living next door to Alice”.
And finally, for “Margaritaville” by Jimmy Buffett, what I learned from my friend (while at the bar) was to yell out, “(pause) Salt! Where’s the god-damn salt!?” after “searching for my lost shaker of salt”.
That’s the way I always heard it (central Washington).
As for the origin, wasn’t Idol’s version of the song featured is some popular movie in the '80s? I was always under the impression that the chant started in the movie and got picked up and passed on by people who had seen the movie.
It was nine years ago. Do people still do this?
Wow, really? So that’s where these dudes got it from then? Via a circuitous route, if I’m reading correctly…
(and yeah, I know, braaainz. But hey, Biggirl still posts here, so why not)
I’ve only heard the version done by Dr. Hook, and they actually have the WTFIA? line in the song.
I never heard of the Mony, Mony audience participation before, but I’ve been doing it all along with my own lyrics:
Mony, Mony
Ride the baloney pony…
:smack: Suckered once more into posting to a zombie.
Yes. I was at a Billy Idol concert in 2008 and it was “Hey motherfucker get laid get fucked.” <– that was the line Billy himself shouted.
Where I grew up it was “Hey whaddya say get laid get fucked”, but in the city I moved to (only 2 hours away!) in 1987 it was the “Hey motherfucker” version.
Here she comes now singing Mony Mony
“Hey! Get laid get fucked!”
Shoot em down turn around come on Mony
Hey! Get laid get fucked!"
etc, etc.
This was the version that was big around here. I saw John Mellencamp (John Cougar at the time) play here and cover that song. When the crowd roared the participation part, he appeared to be completely gobsmacked. He paused the lyrics and motioned the band to play quieter and asked the audience what they were saying. They answered and he laughed, I do believe he had never heard it before.