# Name That Tune!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/13302>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 1, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/13302 "2000-02-01T02:12:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/13302/1 "2000-02-01T02:12:00Z")

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**AHunter3** ’s thread about the song by Yes reminded me of the song I enjoyed listening to and was then surprised to find the words in Kurt Vonnegut’s _Cat’s Cradle_ – it is one of Bokonon’s calypsoes:

> [@](#):
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> ```
> Oh, a sleeping drunkard
> Up in Central Park,
> And a lion-hunter
> In the jungle dark,
> And a chinese dentist,
> And a British queen -
> All fit together
> In the same machine.
> Nice, nice, very nice;
> Nice, nice, very nice;
> Nice, nice, very nice -
> So many different people
> In the same device.
> 
> ```

But I can’t remember the group that recorded it!! Was it Yes? or Queen? or somebody else?

Come to my rescue, O Teeming Minions, er, Millions!

The only clue I have is that I think it’s the same group that recorded “The Logical Song” but my memory ceases to function at that point.

Help. Please.

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“pluto … a seriously demented but oddly addictive presence here.” – TVeblen

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**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/13302/2 "2000-02-01T02:14:00Z")

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The Logical Song was by Supertramp, if that’s any help …

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**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/13302/3 "2000-02-01T02:29:00Z")

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…on the album “Breakfast in America.”

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**Author:** ![Nekosoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@Nekosoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nekosoft)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/13302/4 "2000-02-01T02:36:00Z")

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I can name that tune in three posts!

## Is it [Ambrosia](http://ambrosiaweb.com/ambrosia/lyrics.htm)?

Dojo. Casino. It’s all in the mind.

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**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-tune/13302/5 "2000-02-01T04:07:00Z")

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Thanks **Neko**! It looks like Ambrosia is the right answer, but I can’t say I remember the band. ☹

Also thanks for the clue on Supertramp. (“Samsonite! I was way off. I knew it started with an S though!”)

I guess I must be getting old.

All correct poster can pick up their prizes by mailing me a SASE and $20 for shipping and handling. (Hey! You don’t know how much handling I have to do!)