# Need songs about pregnancy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765 "2006-06-15T03:10:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/21 "2006-06-15T18:57:15Z")
Oh! and “Lightning Crashes” by **Live** > [@](#): > > Lightning crashes, a new mother cries > Her placenta falls to the floor > The angel opens her eyes > The confusion sets in > Before the doctor can even close the door ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/22 "2006-06-15T19:38:34Z")
[**Doug’s Birthday Song**](http://www.yellowtailrecords.com/lyrics/lyr_doug.html#bday) by Uncle Bonsai. > [@](#): > > The doctor slapped the baby > So the mother slapped him back > No one’s gonna treat her boy that way > No one really thought about > How mother might react > Proud to put her instinct on display > She’s slapped a few more doctor’s since that day > > (Doug) Ten perfect little toes > (Doug) One perfect little nose > (Doug) Forgive the purple prose, they couldn’t have foreseen this > (Doug) Four perfect little limbs > (Doug) Three perfect little chins > (Doug) Two perfect earlobes, and a perfect little penis ---
**Author:** ![laramary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@laramary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laramary)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/23 "2006-06-15T19:47:33Z")
I’d include David Bowie’s “Kooks” - not about pregnancy, but definately about welcoming a child into one’s life. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/24 "2006-06-15T20:43:47Z")
Morrisey has a song called Pregnant Again. Colin Meloy has a song called Weird and Wonderful…its not on any album yet as far as I know. He does it live. > [@](#): > > an ankle, an ear lobe, an elbow bone. > its weird how it wonderful grows > > and it was only me and you > that made this three come out of two ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/25 "2006-06-15T20:56:27Z")
Give a listen to “Mayonnaise” by [Lahna Turner](http://www.myspace.com/lahnaturner) > [@](#): > > I remember a simpler time > With not so much to learn > So I wanna be back in my father’s sack > When I was just a sperm > > Because we are all the same > Not too much to say > No matter your race or religion > We were all just mayonnaise > > \ > > Swimming in two hairy balls just longing to be free > Praying that my mother won’t just swallow me ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/26 "2006-06-15T21:28:47Z")
“Baby Baby” by Amy Grant. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/27 "2006-06-15T21:46:33Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Definitely on the darker side of pregnancy is Ben Folds Five’s _Brick_ Appropriate only if they want to get un-preggers. Add The Verve Pipe’s FRESHMEN to that also. Re Kate Bush’s This Woman’s Work… it played during the 7th HEAVEN ep in which Hayley Duff had her baby… I wept like a little bitch with a skinned knee ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/28 "2006-06-16T19:09:04Z")
Y’all are a bunch of whackos (I’m lookin’ at you **bienville** :)), and I love it. Due date is mid-Feb. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/29 "2006-06-16T19:23:05Z")
How about [“One’s on the Way”](http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/o/onesontheway.shtml) (by Shel Silverstein (as performed by Loretta Lynn)? ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/30 "2006-06-16T20:30:41Z")
“When You Dream” by Barenaked Ladies is sung by a father to his newborn son. It’s a beautiful [song](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/barenakedladies/whenyoudream.html). ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/31 "2006-06-16T20:40:12Z")
_All That She Wants_ by **Ace of Base** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/32 "2006-06-16T20:58:11Z")
> [@mlerose](#): > > “When You Dream” by Barenaked Ladies is sung by a father to his newborn son. It’s a beautiful [song](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/barenakedladies/whenyoudream.html). Of course there’s always “With Arms Wide Open”. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/33 "2006-06-16T21:08:32Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Of course there’s always “With Arms Wide Open”. One could probably even get Scott Stapp to do “The Jesus” while it’s being played, seeing as he’s got free time on his hands 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/34 "2006-06-16T21:14:51Z")
Britney Spears- Someday I’ll Understand. Yeah, Yeah. I know. I’ll go now. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/35 "2006-06-16T21:34:32Z")
> [@Snooopy](#): > > “Closing Time” by Semisonic is typically taken to just be a song about last call at a bar, but it’s also about birth. Also, “Made to Last”, off the same album, is a really sweet song about a newborn. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/36 "2006-06-16T23:18:47Z")
Maybe not quite the tone you’d be looking for, but there’s Men Just Leave by Glen Phillips. ([link to live mp3](http://ia301120.us.archive.org/0/items/glen2001-05-20.flac16/glen2001-05-20t03_vbr.mp3) [there’s a little talking in the beginning]) Some of the lyrics: "They were high school sweethearts From Portland, Maine He was a writer’s block poet And though she’d never read a line, she still had faith They ended up in La Jolla, she sold Mary Kay He dreamed about getting published But when her belly got big, he ran away One and one adds up to be three Don’t need to have love Don’t need to be sweet When the air gets heavy it’s hard to breathe The women get stuck and the men just leave Women get stuck and the men just leave" ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/37 "2006-06-17T07:10:45Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Wow! Post#12 and nobody has mentioned **10,000 Maniacs** ’ _Eat For Two_ But, let no one think that _[Eat for Two](http://www.nataliemerchant.com/history/lyrics/song_lyrics/e_songs/eatForTwo.php)_ is a positive song about pregnancy: > [@](#): > > O, baby blankets and baby shoes, > baby slippers, baby spoons, walls of baby blue. > Dream child in my head > is a nightmare born in a borrowed bed. > Now I know lightning strikes again. > It struck me once, then struck me dead. > My folly grows inside of me. The version with which I am most familiar ends with Natalie gasping for breath with her voice choking into tears. This is probably the reaction I’d have to getting pregnant, were such a thing possible. I can’t think of any others off the top of my head, cause **bienville** stole mine. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/38 "2006-06-17T09:35:57Z")
My favorite is a song that I’ve been able to find no link for on the net - “Whoever you are” by Steve Fox, off his album ‘small world.’ “You’re just a little round bubble, in the middle of my woman, Some people call you a bun in the oven. Kicking and rolling around in there, You must be good and ready for a breath of fresh air.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/39 "2006-06-17T12:51:57Z")
Sinead O’Connor: Emporer’s New Clothes. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765/40 "2006-06-17T15:55:33Z")
Oh, also, on the less artistic side (but I love it), there’s “Little Bitty” by Alan Jackson. Nice, fun, sweet song with a subversive touch of existentialism thrown in. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-songs-about-pregnancy/360765.md?page=1)